article thumbnail

Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

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. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

SaaS 113
article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

socalTECH

We caught up with Ryan (who calls himself an "anti-VC") to hear more about his investment firm, which has invested in such companies as Heal , Elite Daily , Saucey , and FragMob. Tell us a bit of the story on how you started HashtagOne? We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly.

article thumbnail

10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

Startup 97
article thumbnail

Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

Company 290
article thumbnail

Making The Enterprise Cloud Real: Unitas Global's Cloud Vision

socalTECH

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. The sale approach is actually very different in those markets. READ MORE>>.

article thumbnail

Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

Startup 90