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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

socalTECH

Companies are always complaining about how hard it is to find the right employees, and how technical talent is hard to find. Yet, you have many students, graduating with technical skills, who just don't know how to make it into a company. At the same time, companies are saying that in cybersecurity and data science, there are 1.5

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

Loo--who was the very first employee at ServiceNow--explains what that means, and why companies use the startup's software. We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level. What is Perspectium?

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

socalTECH

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry.

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IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption

Tech Zulu Event

For example, Apple’s Newton was considered a flop when released in 1993, but upon close inspection it strongly resembles the highly popular iPads of today. . For example, new mobile devices are creating an era of cloud computing and BYOD (What is BYOD?). There are a number of reasons an innovative product might fail.

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WHAT ARE THE REWARDS OF GOING GREEN?

AeA Los Angeles Council

When a company is not in compliance, it looses its ability to sell in certain markets. source: Strategy Business.com ) A great example of a CEO who changed directions with regards to making a supply chain carbon neutral is Dole Food Co. The CIO: The optimal use of information & communication technology is critical to the CIO.

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