socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2010

iSkoot Technologies includes substantially all of the assets of San Francisco-based iSkoot, a developer of social networking and Skype-compatible voice-over-IP software for mobile phones. iSkoot was backed by Charles River Ventures, Jesselson Capital, Khosla Ventures, Vision Opportunity Master Fund, and ZG Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2010

Culver City-based Fonality , a developer of Voice-over-IP, business PBX phone software, said late last week that it served its one-billionth cloud-based call recently, and had "record sales" during Q4. Fonality is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Intel Capital, and Azure Capital Partners, and is headed by Chris Lyman.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Need office or Tech Space?

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APRIL 3, 2012

Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. So, when Facebook became friendly to developers, there was a great opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Introduce disruptive technologies to this domain.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Our customer support is in-house, and we have a light-touch customer support model, and we don't have to manage a massive network.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Who are your core customers? Those are the three active areas, and we have several customers and have made lots of headway there. Why do these customers choose you rather than build their own systemsin particular, the carriers?

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

This is the origin of the “solution looking for a problem” and “if we build it, they will come” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale. What makes up revenue?

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. Our flagship customers are in utilities, manufacturers, and lighting manufacturers. We''ve already got 150 employees and $31 million in venture capital, so we''re pretty established.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This is the origin of the “ solution looking for a problem ” and “ if we build it, they will come ” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Keep on top of accounts receivable; consider including an incentive for customers who make early payments as part of your purchase terms, and have a plan in place for managing late customer payments. Develop your financial projections. Forge banking relationships. Creativity and flexibility are essential qualities to look for.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2014

Keep on top of accounts receivable; consider including an incentive for customers who make early payments as part of your purchase terms, and have a plan in place for managing late customer payments. Develop your financial projections. Forge banking relationships. Creativity and flexibility are essential qualities to look for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

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MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. Legal threats from other IP holders?

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. Steve Curry: The promise of solutions like VMware, is they address utilization of existing capital and servers.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

He envisions a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced himself that he will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. When we do a deal with a game developer to do integration, and then do another deal, we have to do more integration, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. We ended up developing products for 120 carriers in 40 countries. I was one of the early folks there that came on and was there as the company grew.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Last week, Irvine-based Teridian Semiconductor (www.teridiansemiconductor.com), a developer of semiconductors for the electric metering and electricity measurement market, was acquired by Maxim Semiconductor. Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. Jerry Fitch: That's a fair statement.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. Talk about your VoIP network?

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? Get customer input. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

When the tech market is done over heating, or over hyping or whatever is going on right now, there will be a select few companies who have built differentiated products, hired talented teams, raised sufficient capital, established good operational processes and have strategic insight into where their market is heading.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Not everybody agrees that entrepreneurs should take investor meetings outside of “funding season&# when they’re raising capital. And VC’s are tough customers. If I see your alpha product then I can judge how it develops over time. What about Product / IP? They see it as a distraction and a time suck.

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APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. Clarity for the team that is building the product, clarity for the customer who’s using the product, and clarity when you’re marketing the product.

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