Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2019

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 28, 2012

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 -- Clean Technology Council. When consumers turn to any form of media, they will see articles on how to reduce the cost of their energy bill. Is California Ready for Community Solar Gardens? Our keynote speaker is Wally Geer, President of Greymar Assoc. Community Solar Gardens is a new buzz word.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. 9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. How to find a startup mentor. Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? This article will primarily focus on locating and evaluating development companies, rather than design firms. Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? Or is your project a clean slate? Make certain you explore these projects.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2015

The coming of age of support technologies, built on big data analytics and social networks will profoundly affect the day-to-day focus of sales organizations. Read the rest of Nick''s article on The 3 Technologies Driving The New Sales Force. 2015 will be the year that transforms the daily activity of the sales rep. Continued.).

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SoCal CTO

JULY 20, 2008

Fascinating article by Andrew McAfee - Technology Beats a Full House - discusses how variation in performance spread decreases over time as systems become optimized. He shows that the spreads in IT heavy industries has greater variation over the past decade. winners were increasingly separated from losers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2010

In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. Before engaging a Technology Advisor for the purpose of accessing their network – make sure it’s the right network.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

As an unintended side effect, those acquisitions have made Broadcom a major player in Israel's high tech industry , according to the article from ZDNet, where the firm has acquired 11 companies in the last four years. The article says that Broadcom has about 800 employees in Israel. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The firm's policy recently came to light in a WSJ article. In what might be one of the more unusual perks for a Southern California high tech company, LRN , a developer of enterprise compliance and ethics software, has an unlimited, paid vacation policy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2021

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Tony Cristiano of Pivotal Arc, talking about 3 Steps to Software Market Entry Success. Do you have an article that would be useful to the SoCal startup and technology community? Let us know! There is much money to be made in software and tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2017

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2014

For this afternoon''s contributed article, we''re featuring Dale Carr , the CEO of LeadBolt , who offers some tips to score a career in today''s high tech industry. You can read more contributions like this from the local technology community at our Insights and Opinions section. LeadBolt is based in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2013

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” The concept of disruptive technology was first introduced by Clayton M. " At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the technology than that we do. We don''t quite get it.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2019

For our Insights and Opinions section today, where we share contributed articles from the Southern California technology community, we have Eric Eide , of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation , a nonprofit that recently has been working on trying to help support the local entrepreneurial community across the region. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. Marketing is everything these days.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2018

In an in-depth look, Wired just posted a long article charting the path of Nick Millington, the Chief Product Officer at Sonos , and the evolution of the company's whole home sound systems. Sonos just became the latest Central Coast company to have an IPO, one of a long string of successful technology startups to come out of the region.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator. I’m pleased to have been an early backer of Bill Gross’s novel solar concentration technology.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Technology is crucial for innovation—and innovation in technology is critical to innovation in just about every other arena. Because it’s the forward march of technology that allows us to do more with less, improving our lives in the process. Just look at how we’re living right now.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 In recent years, however, the company seems to be more focused on advancing its virtual reality display technology. million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2022

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

I often hear the qualms of business-smart but non-technical entrepreneurs, wondering if they really have a chance in this high-technology marketplace. I tell them that if their idea or solution is technology intensive, they clearly need technology strength on the team. Then use their insights in questioning other candidates.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

In an article talking about where Hollywood's elite is putting its money, variety said that business managers who handle the financial affairs of Hollywood's stars and execs are eagerly looking to place a "significant portion" of their portfolios in the tech sector, often through buying into venture capital funds on Sand Hill road.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2013

In our Insights and Opinions section, we feature the advice, opinions, and commentary of leaders in the Southern California technology community. Today, we feature an article from investment banker and investor Ivan Nikkhoo , on why--even in a world where technical skills are highly in demand-- communications is just as important.

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2010

An article in this month's BusinessWeek names Santa Monica number three, and Irvine number four, on its list of top 10 cities for startups. The article cites Santa Monica's density of technology and digital media companies, and Irvine's workforce, University of California campus, and office parks in its rankings.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2020

“3D bioprinting technologies, initially widely recognized in medicine, are nowadays gaining popularity in producing foods such as meat,” said Yusef Khesuani, co-founder and Managing Partner of 3D Bioprinting Solutions, in a statement. ” Image: Beyond Meat. . ” Image: Beyond Meat. ”

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

Has Los Angeles finally made it as a technology hub? For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, investment banker Ivan Nikkhoo argues that LA has become a booming technology hub. Read the rest of Ivan''s article, The Emergence of Los Angeles as a Booming Tech Hub. My conclusion: Los Angeles is a serious tech hub.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. The idea is to bring companies to collaborate and also give regulatory agencies a window into the technologies and how they may work in concert to bring air mobility to the masses in the coming years.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The upcoming IPO of Venice-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , is spurring a lot of local real estate agents, money managers, and luxury goods retailers excited to get a piece of the action, according to an article in the New York Times.

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2015

Venture capitalists, who once were pouring money into the advertising technology area, have shut off the spigot for ad tech--according to an article in the WSJ this week. Ad tech companies, once the darling of Sand Hill Road, are having a hard time even getting a meeting , according to the report.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

You can check out Parenting.com, MyWedding.com, ThePennyHoarder.com, all these sites are using Search IQ technology, and it's our own version of inside search. Not only are we focused on new products for our advertisers, we're also trying to access more and more supply through proprietary technology. Thanks for the interview!

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed. These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer. ” For Meatable right now, price remains an issue.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2018

In our Insights and Opinions section, we regularly feature contributions from the local community about the local technology ecosystem. Read Ed's entire article, Mobile Gaming Founders Blazing New Trails. Today, we have an opinion piece from Ed Guerrero of Silicon Valley Bank, on the mobile gaming industry. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2011

In a new section on Docstoc's web site, the firm has been sharing dozens of video segments featureing business tips and advice from entrepreneurs from Southern California's technology community. Disclaimer: socalTECH has also contributed content to the new section.)

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

For this morning's Insights and Opinions , section, where we feature the voices of Southern California's technology industry, we have an article from Howard Marks , the co-founder of Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine and co-founder of gaming giant Activision. Read the rest of Howard's article, The LA Discount.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Our Insights and Opinions section features contributed article from our readers, about topics of interest to others. Most importantly, however, they want the overall experience to be as simple and intuitive as current technology will allow. Or, they�ll buy from someone else. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2014

Nakamoto was identified by a Newsweek article Thursday morning as the elusive inventor of the algorithm behind Bitcoin. In an interview with the AP , Nakamoto denied any involvement with the currency. Nakamoto apparently shook a pack of reporters in the AP''s parking garage late this afternoon.

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