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IntraStage Raises Angel Funding

socalTECH

According to the firm, it raised a Series A investment led by the Tech Coast Angels. IntraStage's customers include Motorola, Panasonic and Northrop Grumman. The firm is headed by Patrick Kelly, and the Tec Coast Angels investment was led by Bob Fried, the former CIo of Staples. Other investors were not disclosed.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. 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. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds? That''s very powerful, if you think about.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

Coming out of ServiceNow around 2013, I realized that a lot of problems that we had been discussing and dealing with with customers adopting applications like ServiceNow into the enterprise, was establishing connections of that data and processes with systems in the enterprise. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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Why Millennials Are Moving to Downtown Cleveland

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Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. We also have much closer proximity to a large corporate customer base than other areas of the country, which helps generate revenue for companies early on.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Show personal investment.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

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African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). Omidyar Networks – head of investment. We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms. Amongst many others.