Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2023

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 12, 2012

The officials from the San Francisco Department of Environment told CIO Journal that, ” Apple does not therefore qualify any purchase using city funds” In the coming two weeks officials are planning to send out letters to all their 50 agencies not to buy Apple’s Macs and desktops lack the green electronics certification.

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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. CEO at Bitium.

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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. What does ZestFinance do? Machine learning is great at consuming data, taking lots of different data, and finding signal in that data to make predictions.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

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. The problem is traditionally, there is a swivel chair problem, where when one customer has an issue they want to report to that service provider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Sometimes a look at the raw numbers, in addition to trend reports, will trigger a new question, and lead to insights otherwise overlooked. Too much reliance on automated filtering may result in missing key issues and rehashing the problems framed up in the past. Seek a variety of analysis tools.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

In my 20's, I was already doing serious volume, and ended up closing on 6 to 7 billion in mortgages with 400 to 500 people reporting to me. My counterpart, Mark Attaway, our CIO, was at Fidelity national and LSI, both title companies, building automated platforms for the title process. I'm passionate about changing this industry.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

The CIO: The optimal use of information & communication technology is critical to the CIO. According to Gartner, CIOs should only expect to pay hefty energy bills but beware that the vast majority of U.S. data centers will face energy disruptions in the coming years. of the total U.S. How Green is the data center?

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

However, if you look at things like the Verizon data breach report, stolen identity is the number one issue out there. We also have the CEO of Forescout on our board, the CIO of Malwarebytes, and lots of other different security leaders who are familiar with this space. It's the elephant in the room.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing.

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IBM IBM CIO Startup 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. Here’s a short list that are decidedly East of the 405 freeway (i.e. not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. And do so in real life, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

I also began to get the first real reports that this is happening in the enterprise last year as social media begins to grow there as well. Dev Connection Digital Cameras & Camcorders Ed Botts Microsoft Report Emerging Tech Enterprise Web 2.0 Forrester Research Googling Google GreenTech Pastures Hardware 2.0

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