SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. Application Characteristics Any discussion of performance starts by understanding what the software does, how it is used, and what it interacts with.

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike sells cloud-based security software and related services by subscription to businesses.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

Yelp, the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, has acquired SeatMe, a web and iPad-app based restaurant and nightlife reservation service. The deal will see Yelp connect more restaurants and bars to customers through online bookings. Yelp will pay approximately $2.2 million by July 24th.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What kinds of customers are using your service? We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. What is mobile fundraising? Those donations are mobile initiated.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” For instance, in 2000 Gartner created the term Supranet to describe how software would connect disparate hardware – proclaiming the advent of the Internet Of Things a decade and a half too early.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

It started as basic as signing up for a newsletter from your favorite site to customizing a profile to display particular topics. One thing Internet technologies have brought us over time is the increasing ability to create customizable or personalized content for ourselves. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Google balances the universe and helps all of the hardware, software and media companies ensure it isn’t a “one horse race.&#. So entering 2011 why does this matter?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Then in May 2011, she earned an M.B.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. All types of IT expertise will be needed at SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS providers as well as independent software vendors [ISVs],” he said. Finally, IT security expertise will remain important.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. call to arms.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

It started as basic as signing up for a newsletter from your favorite site to customizing a profile to display particular topics. One thing Internet technologies have brought us over time is the increasing ability to create customizable or personalized content for ourselves. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

As Mark states below “Forums are the original social media&# , people sharing information across the web on all sorts of different topics. Vanilla is forum software that powers discussions on over 400,000 sites around the world. Give Us the Fast Pitch. What made you decide to begin working on Vanilla?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Who are the typical customers for your products? It's a month-to-month rental, although many of our customers buy the product--but they can do it on an operations budget. We're software-as-a-service, all of its encrypted, and we're more secure than hospitals. The pharmacy uses lots of passive barcoding and interrogators.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

Gary Samore, The White House Coordinator for Arms Control, acknowledged the attack in 2011. Information that is shared may contain protected free speech, personally identifiable information and private email correspondence from customers. Threats Beyond the Military. In 2013, over 600 data breaches personally affected consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. We’re interested in being at the leading edge of how people search and explore the web based on images. What inspired you to launch LoveIt? Any funding yet, if yes how much and by who?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Bridget Hilton – Founder of Jack’s Soap. Eli Portnoy – Founder and CEO of ThinkNear.

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