article thumbnail

Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Both Sides of the Table

You’re writing a freaking blog post! He turned me down for a job in 2005. But it’s mostly customer service. I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice. I am looking at a company that provides a service supporting node.js “But WAIT !!! I get tons of.

Email 314
article thumbnail

Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

article thumbnail

5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft

Tech Zulu Event

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. Sure, a great operating system is one of the things Microsoft is most known for, but there are dozens of other Microsoft products and services that help businesses grow. 3. It’s not just about Windows.

Writing 88
article thumbnail

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals

InfoChachkie

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. For instance, in a section describing the ramifications of a No-Shop clause, Matt writes, “Insist on spelling out key terms prior to a signed term sheet if it has a no-shop clause in it.

article thumbnail

Interview: Paige Craig, CEO BetterWorks

InfoChachkie

When you are a bigger company, they are not as cost sensitive…and (they) want to provide a ton of services. 4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? What must a startup do to motivate you to write them a check? We see two markets. We save you a ton of time.

Summary 246
article thumbnail

Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

Startup 221