Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As student and staff populations grow, teachers rely more heavily on internet-intensive learning tools, and schools should embrace cloud technologies for data storage and access. The global cloud computing market for education is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of over 26 percent between 2017 and 2021 1. .

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. It solidified our ability to launch new technology using resources both here and abroad. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? We've learned a lot in the process.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. The goal has to make the technology really accessible using the power of the smartphone, and bringing people into AR and VR as no one has done before in such a way. Where is the product now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2017.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. “The

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

The more potentially disruptive your technology, the more important it is that this message be quick, simple, and quantified. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

Since my experience and interests have been primarily with technology, I’ve been watching those trends for a long time, and I see rapid change, but predicting impact is a challenge. Technology won’t solve this one. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Education: More students and different classes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

There is no substitute for market research and independent verification that a large opportunity exists. Even early positive feedback from early adopters may be misleading relative to the volume market. Revolutionary ideas that require customer paradigm shifts require extra time for adoption, and larger budgets for education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Solutions that imply a paradigm shift always take longer to sell, and more money for marketing and education than expected. If you can put technology aside long enough to focus on these principles, you too will find the funding you need, and beat the odds of success with your new venture.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Technology is transforming every aspect of business, and our technology is one piece of the puzzle that helps them get there. There are something like 110 different ways for someone to make money, whether that might be investing in the stock market or real estate, building a Silicon Valley company and flipping it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. Innovation is necessary to get you into the game, but even a disruptive technology won’t assure you business success. Create an entirely new market space or new category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

For example, it’s all too common for a technology entrepreneur to highlight a new battery technology as the ultimate power for smartphones, medical heart pacemakers, and home lighting. Zero in on a specific market segment. Concentrate your marketing efforts around a single channel. Eliminating world hunger is too broad.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ICO madness through 2016 and 2017 was bad, initially, for the industry as a whole, because there were lots of crooks and charlatans, but now, the SEC has cut through a lot of the BS. Anthony Citrano: The only thing I've been longer into than technology is cars. Our ultimate goal, which is number three, is to become a market maker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

Thus every entrepreneur and business owner needs to see their market in that context, understanding the global forces that will impact them sooner or later. Technological innovations disrupt stable markets. Eliminating poverty, improving education, and financial literacy are issues that can no longer be separated from business.

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