socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. However, as it happened, we went into due diligence and got a term sheet to sell the company on my month off. What is Pledgeling? I'm thinking I'm going to have this life changing moment. I'm thinking, this is crazy.

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socalTECH

JULY 3, 2018

To launch the grant effort, Funraise said it is offering up grants for such hing as a year of free office space at WeWork in Southern California, $25,000 in Apple products, a $25,000 cash grant, brand marketing consultation from Ideation, a high net worth pitch to 10 philanthropists, and more. Funraise is led by CEO Justin Wheeler.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review ! The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. Last week, we talked about about the “de-stonkifying” of the market.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego. What is PointPredictive?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

Carlsbad-based Dot Hill Systems said today that it has completed its acquisition of Cloverleaf Communications , a developer of storage virtualization and management software. Dot Hill said it expects the buy to help it expand beyond the storage array market, into the higher margin storage software market. cloverleaf is based in Israel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

One 11-year classic study of over 200 companies, detailed in “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ Ethics can’t be managed.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

One 11-year classic study of over 200 companies, detailed in “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ times the return of other companies over the last 10 years.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

This concentration is partly due to natural causes – successful startups spawn other successful startups. Other than shortening the investor’s quarterly commute to your Board meetings, the net benefits of relocating for many startups are illusory, as I describe HERE. SECTOR: Software, Energy, Bio Or Bust. Do The Math.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

One 11-year study of over 200 companies, detailed in “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. While codes of behavior do not guarantee an ethical culture, they do clarify desired behavior and articulate for employees what is expected of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

One 11-year study of over 200 companies, detailed in “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. While codes of behavior do not guarantee an ethical culture, they do clarify desired behavior and articulate for employees what is expected of them.

Software Review 100

Software Review Summary Examples Offshore 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2016

The net income is calculated by subtracting expenses from the revenue. To increase the net income, management must raise prices, reduce expenses or use a combination of both. When the model is completed, software and machinery may be needed to execute the process. The Bottom Line. Process modeling presents a broad overview.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking.

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Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Venture Capital 189

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

A classic article in the Harvard Business Review “ The Truth About Customer Experience ” defines it as your customer’s end-to-end journey with you, not just the key touchpoints or critical moments when customers interact with your organization. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Detractors.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#. 66% Net Operating Margins? Each quarter you should review your model. Do so at your peril.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08. to Jim, Kevin.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. In this talk I will review how developers can easily change their applications to be more functional in a mobile, touch first world and provide an engaging user experience. To register for event click here.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: [link]. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. “As

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence.

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Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. I widened my net this year. I met with Seed San Diego partners Taner Halicioglu and Eric Gasser, who also reviewed the companies and provided their feedback.

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Below we’ll outline how to squeeze those last drops of talent out of your own social circles, how to incentivize current employees to lure in potential candidates in their networks, and how to entice “superconnectors” to recruit through their own far-reaching nets. Tap Into Your Network. Because smart people know other smart people.

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Networking Startup Software Review Conference 83

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The first round of pitches are due this week. ” Some academic researchers and biotech firms are building safety nets into other cutting-edge therapies. The agency wants to fund projects for four years, to the point they can be handed off to investors or other government agencies.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. The net-net, is they want to simplify their lives, and we've given them an application that allows them to simplify their life, save money, and share.

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2011

Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. Review my previous article on this challenge – “ Ten Keys to a Killer Name For Your Company.” First you have to find the current owner, using Domain Tools , or other lookup functions available on the net. But that’s all history, and you have to live with it.

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Company Companies Pricing Web 81

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Everyone knows what it means to have a “dot-com”, and most people have heard of a “dot-net” and a “dot-org.” “Many of our clients need help understanding the mechanics of trademarks on the Internet,” said Dr. George Edwards , a software and Internet IP consultant with Quandary Peak Research.

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Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We didn't wanted to create new project management software--everyone uses Microsoft Project--but we wanted to make it more collaborative. So, our software takes a Microsoft.mpp file, and allows a whole team to manipulate it. Every company that did try it or buy it gave rave reviews, and said that this was what they wanted.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2015

Bitcoin’s booth wasn’t a surprise to see at CES due to the huge noise it made in 2014 only seems fitting we find them here. However, some of those receipts have a winning prize code and participators can get a T-shirt or even a $25 and $50 American Express gift card! Massage Charis.

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Software Review Entertainment Technical Review .Net 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Make sure to tune in! Sponsored giveaways and contests.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2010

Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. Review my previous article on this challenge – “ A Critical Decision is Your Company Name.” First you have to find the current owner, using Domain Tools , or other lookup functions available on the net. He grabbed hundreds of thousands of names, and returned many.

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Pricing Web Software Review .Net 49

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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