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Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast. It is our pleasure to welcome him back to share insights in an evening of analysis and comment; he will provide an insider view and forecasts for key technologies in computing, communications, and business applications. Don't miss the pre-meeting roundtable.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like. We want to be the technology tool kit for social commerce. We also mail checks to the advertisers every day, to make sure people get paid. READ MORE>>.

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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

They purchase lottery tickets, frequent casinos, and buy magazines from Publishers Clearing House in the hopes of “instantly becoming a multi-millionaire!”. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Unfortunately, too many adults retain this immature concept of seeking their fortunes. Lighting The Match. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

They purchase lottery tickets, frequent casinos, and buy magazines from Publishers Clearing House in the hopes of “instantly becoming a multi-millionaire!”. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Unfortunately, too many adults retain this immature concept of seeking their fortunes. Lighting The Match. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

Tech Zulu Event

The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. That domain was taken, so I chose IconFinder.net instead. So it really got a good start.

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