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HashAtIt.com Takes On Hashtag Search

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A new, Los Angeles startup, HashAtIt.com has launched this morning, offering up a search engine specifically for searching for hashtag content. The company said it was founded by Laurie Paolone, who was formerly the CIO of MagnaFlow.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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They were in manufacturing, or a healthcare organization, and it was very obvious that most enterprises were struggling to run large scale infrastructure at scale, with efficiency. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

Tech Zulu Event

Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Information Officer.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. LA should be LA.”

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Information Officer.

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