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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. They were in manufacturing, or a healthcare organization, and it was very obvious that most enterprises were struggling to run large scale infrastructure at scale, with efficiency.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

Tech Zulu Event

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 emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. You're received some funding lately? What is Perspectium? That's how we started.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

Ryan Blair: The theme around the fund is pretty simple. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. I learned a hell of a lot, invested my gains, and set up my venture fund, knowing I was going to monetize the network I had created. So where is the fund now?

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Why Millennials Are Moving to Downtown Cleveland

Tech.Co

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. Funding for early-stage companies also suffers as a result of this. Aaron: I agree and state funding is the first to come to mind. What’s your role in your ecosystem?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. But consider the following: 1.

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