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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo Majid Abai is the Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California.

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SoundCloud Hits 180 million Users Revamps Portal & Opens To The Public

Tech Zulu Event

The world’s leading social sound platform said Next SoundCloud is out in private beta and open for public use as the world’s only platform of the kind. Only Platform Of Its Kind. Eric Wahlforss, founder and CTO said the platform is great after revamping it following feedback from the community during the beta release.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

Xconomy

In a recent interview, Certona CEO Meyar Sheik said the company has taken a measured approach since he founded Certona in 2004 with CTO Geoffrey Hueter. Unlike many of its rivals, Sheik said Certona had raised a total of only $7 million in venture capital (in 2008) from ABS Ventures of Waltham, MA, and San Diego’s Express Ventures.

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Tracking Action Sports With ActiveReplay's Trace Sensor, with David Lokshin

socalTECH

Unlike those, however, one of the latest projects, ActiveReplay (www.activereplay.com) has some serious, experienced executives behind it, who have the experience in designing hardware devices--in the form of CEO Dr. Anatole Lokshin, who helped create the consumer GPS market as the CTO of Magellan Navigation. How did that happen?

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

socalTECH

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

socalTECH

Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. It turned out to be fortuitous timing, we closed the round in literally, late, late, late 2008. We're all technology guys in the way, and were not in the apparel space.