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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

They wanted to combine Hinshaw’s experience in starting and growing health IT startups with Balgrosky’s expertise in strategic IT planning and overhauling healthcare IT networks—but without getting too deeply involved. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president.

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

socalTECH

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). What's the theme of your investments? That's why we have investments in Heal, Saucey, and FragMob.

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Interview with Jeff Kukowski, SecureAuth

socalTECH

That's securing the network, looking at endpoints, and making other security investments across the board, and on such things like mobile device management for mobile phones. We're looking to see if a phone number has been ported recently, or if it's coming from a virtualized network. It's a pretty high level issue.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). LA investors are more pragmatic.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). Rob and Lance made multiple business trips to the USA and UK in order to understand the offerings and strategy of existing payment providers, social networks, banks and financial service providers. PayPal – Payments Director.

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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). Show personal investment. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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