socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. After I left Yahoo, I spent a couple of years with Forsythe Solutions Group, as a liaison with account executives. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. It''s a very unique business model.
socalTECH
JULY 28, 2017
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. Even with prominent breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn, and others, how many consumers actually take the time to enable that second factor? We are lazy.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. LA investors are more pragmatic. You don’t. Get over it.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. eBay and others.
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 20, 2010
As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. close behind.
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