Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2023

One startup, no matter how smart the people and how well it is funded, can only do so much. Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. That’s real viral marketing. IBM learned a lot from Microsoft on this one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

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. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles' Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. 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. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Alex earned a B.A. He lives in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. We've been at it for awhile, making use of machine learning in lending, and we're now bringing the technology we've developed to businesses around the world.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Unitas Global (www.unitasglobal.com) recently raised a round of funding from MK Capital and Azure Capital for its vision of helping enterprises make that transition to cloud technology. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. But, the way we do it is different.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

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. I've also been dabbling in the development of our local startup ecosystem, and hope to bring willing folks together to improve it. Aaron: I agree.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. You don’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

One startup, no matter how smart the people and how well it is funded, can only do so much. Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. That’s real viral marketing. IBM learned a lot from Microsoft on this one.

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IBM IBM CIO Startup 85

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sure, there are roles like CTO or CIO, but the input and decision making process has remained fairly static. With the trend to higher technology needs and the youth who are involved in the development of new technology, it is no longer unusual to walk into a board meeting and see a CTO in his early 40s. Today’s boardroom.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Fortunately the Web doesn’t stand still and a great deal of research and development continues to go into evolving the mechanics of today’s online social universe. Naturally, we’ll likely see some of these attempts fall by the wayside in the relentlessly Darwinian environment of the Internet. landscape.

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