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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

said this morning that it has acquired Syncsort Incorporated , a developer of enterprise software based in New Jersey. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Syncsort develops Hadoop and other big data integration software for the mainframe market.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Financial terms of the acquisition were not anounced by the companies. Syncsort was headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, and is over 40 years old, but has a significant number of Big Data products based on Apache Hadoop, Splunk, Apache Spark, and the cloud, in addition to software for the IBM z Systems mainframe platform.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of IT analytics annd management software, announced today that former FileNet CEO Lee Roberts is joining the firm's board of directors. Roberts headed up FileNet as Chairman and CEO at the time of its acquisition by IBM. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Redland-based Esri , the developer of geographical information software, said Thursday that it has acquired SpotOn Systems , a developer of business intelligence and interactive mapping software. Esri said that SpotOn provides interactive mapping software for IBM Cognos, IBM's business intelligence software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Tags: entrepreneur startup merger acquisition business. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Shackleton Advisors announced today that it has acquired SafeHarbor Technology , a Seattle-based provider of software for managing inbound telephone, email, and chat requests. Tags: shackleton equity partners private safeharbor merger acquisition software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

He also spearheaded a number of fundamental software breakthroughs, including creating the basic hardware / software architecture which resulted in the creation of the third-party personal computer (PC) software industry. Designed CD-ROM filing system and created Universal Software Bus.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Startups Made Simple.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Dedicated to our Clients. NeoHire (www.neohire.comk).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. Yet the software patent process is a mess. Yet the software patent process is a mess. I say this with conviction even after I survived the process, and have a software patent pending.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. They are very acquisitive. I think that is a big strength for us.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Startups Made Simple.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database.

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JULY 24, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Startups Made Simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. acquisitions business entrepreneur growth mergers organic growth' An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Middle Market Investment Banking. Startups Made Simple.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Dedicated to our Clients. Need office or Tech Space?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Why is this happening?

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. That took quite a bit of investment in organic growth and acquisitions.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Dedicated to our Clients. NeoHire (www.neohire.comk).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2012

As IBM goes flash with its acquisition of Texas Memory Systems and the recent public launch of Data Collective for Big Data entrepreneurs DNA was the least expected move for storage. A Harvard researcher says data can now be stored in human DNA devices with more capacity to store exploding quantities of digital data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. This initial focus is usually driven by limited financial and people resources, as well as the bandwidth of the executive team.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. 2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

There have been a series of tie-ups, as security-tech companies try to boost their businesses and amplify their products via acquisitions. IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Software Helps companies rapidly convert unstructured online data and content into structured data assets that can be used to create new products, revenue Streams, and enhance current online data sets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. This initial focus is usually driven by limited financial and people resources, as well as the bandwidth of the executive team.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. What Facebook is saying, is Facebook alone is not going to do it, a brand must own the relationship and make the paid media investment, to drive awareness and acquisition of customers.

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