Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The company opened in late 2015, offering a 12-week course for $13,500 and promising graduates a software job within 90 days of graduation. Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Software I enjoy the ride on a good commercial airline flight. It is being temporarily taken off course the whole trip. And, each time the elements take it off course, it corrects and gets back on the right path. You’ll be blown off course every day. Success requires all of these.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Of course, it's probably harder to find these folks.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2017

Dayton, OH-based Teradata (NYSE: TDC ), which has roughly 1,000 employees at its Teradata Labs engineering unit in San Diego, says today it has acquired StackIQ, a six-year-old startup near San Diego that specializes in software used to automate datacenters in the cloud. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

I’ve blogged for years. ” Of course I could have said 52 coffee meetings (1 for each week since that was my metaphor) but I thought it would be less memorable. .” ” Of course I could have said 52 coffee meetings (1 for each week since that was my metaphor) but I thought it would be less memorable.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Of course, Id like to believe the important community building work well be doing at the Alliance will be transformational to SoCal.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Of course the naysayers are out again. Of course not. I’d love even 0.5% We will do that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. Optimize your web history and presence.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. In an eCommerce or Internet Services business it is often the marketing costs (if purchased online) and in an enterprise software company it is often marketing plus enterprise sales reps. That bit is easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide. The deal underscores the growing demand for software coding and other digital skills—and employers’ increased willingness to turn to non-traditional sources to find talent.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

The software is super easy to use and I can’t wait to build a library of content that I will use for future blogs. Sean and Lewis will be on our Tech News radio show in December doing a webinar on how to use Facebook, LinkedIn and of course Twitter. You can visit my YouTube to keep track of my progress.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

And since I was 13 years old I have been accustomed to the debate about the limitations of technology or rather the downsides of being overly obsessed with gadgets, devices, software or applications. Technology is of course a dual-edge sword but the media discussions of how it affects human interactions all too often focuses on the downsides.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Of course I don’t believe this argument. There is of course much nurture and culture weaved in. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

I am soon going to start piloting a software application to help me do this. BTW, when I wrote blog posts on Sunday’s I always Tweet again Monday morning for exactly this reason. Sure, this takes longer than a group email. So for less important emails I still send to the group. It’s called ToutApp. Rinse & repeat.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Among Degreed’s goals is to help businesses keep up with technological change by offering workers easy access to online courses and other materials that can fill knowledge gaps or add new areas of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Profitability.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

When we interview potential developers, it’s amazing to me how many can’t answer questions that every student in a sophomore level computer science course should be able to answer. No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

Of course I’ve talked about wanting to get to know entrepreneurs over long periods of time ( lines, not dots ) – my most referred to post. It’s in an area that has no hardware and no software and definitely isn’t a company you’d read about on TechCrunch. I wrote here about why I avoid party rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. With respect to software testing, most developers acknowledge that finding and resolving a defect before integration tests saves time and effort. Easy stuff should be easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

Then there was always the risk of failure, which of course doesn’t apply once your real job is gone. With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. You don’t even need an investor. Get business cards made.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Of course, big data never really went away—though many companies did. It seems like ancient history now, but “big data” was once a hot field with startups, investors, and big companies all buzzing with hype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies. For anyone who reads this blog, if you are looking for particular kind of web developers in Los Angeles, feel free to contact me. It’s a pretty active, but very private network. Especially for an early-stage startup?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. And here’s the thing.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2017

Users aren’t guaranteed to shed pounds, of course, but a National Institutes of Health study last year found that the app’s most dedicated users lose weight nearly 73 percent of the time. Now, the 25-person company is entering new—and more complicated—territory with.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Of course, that doesn’t help here. I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. Don’t put yourself in this situation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools. You should investigate the wide variety of software systems that are on the market, and pick one you makes you comfortable, since you will probably be doing the basic data entry yourself.

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