From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Any service provider that is willing to bet the business they are working for is going to be worth considerably more in the future than it is today. Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers.

Equity 40

Equity Services Startup Google 40

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Any service provider that is willing to bet the business they are working for is going to be worth considerably more in the future than it is today. Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers.

Equity 40

Equity Services Startup Google 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I am a big fan of not getting locked in, looking at what services and vendors are there, and going multi-cloud when you can. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. Years of my career have been driving efforts like that. That was a very different experience.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

As a result, I came up with the service as a way to help solve the problem, and not burden friends, who might have goodwill but who weren't able to help solve the issue. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. What's the business model behind your service?

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Startup Newsletter Custom Customer 193

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Our clients are similarly distributed across industries ranging from banking to online services, to devices. It's extremely widely used.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Invidi – Provider of addressable television advertising and marketing services to cable, satellite and telco-delivered television carriers.

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