Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 So in our earliest stages we’re about 70% seed and 30% pre-seed. dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But the strangest thing about the decline in the seed stage only happened in the seed stage. Seed investing is really about backing “the start.” With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. They wake up each day re-energized and optimistic, curious about the world around them, but always committed to getting real things done.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- Beyond Location Based Services to Cloud Computing: The future of GIS. SDSIC Geospatial Information Systems (GIS/LBS) Business Interest Group invites you a panel discussion among GIS/LBS experts about the future of GIS/LBS.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Yesterday I wrote about how to talk to investors about your competitors. In short, acknowledge they exist, be transparent about strengths & weaknesses and use your differences to talk about how you want to position yourself in the market. But forget talking about them, how should you actually treat your competitors?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Cloud solution adopters can increase available storage space, increase scalability, reduce administration complexity and slash the costs of personnel, hardware, power, cooling and the inevitable “end-of-life” data center upgrade cycle. The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

There is a theory about agile leadership that has been advanced by a number of business book authors, and this CEO’s method fits within that concept. A group moves in a much more agile manner if it can be directed to focus all of its resources on just a few issues. We all can benefit from this lesson.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. becomes a reality in 2013 with the consumerization of enterprise software and cloud computing leading the charge. I think "enterprise 2.0"

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. Pure excitement isn’t either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu? What we mean by that, is if you think about something like the Olympics, or the World Cup Soccer Finals, in that hundreds of millions of people are all focused on the same event, and are participating in a shared experience. That's an important element of what we're doing.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2015

In the wake of the Snowden controversy, the continuing cyber attacks, and the cloud’s growing popularity, businesses, private citizens, and governments are showing greater concern over the protection of privacy when it concerns cloud computing. Protecting personal information in the cloud remains a complicated endeavor.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. First, for those not familiar with DreamHost, talk about what your company does? That will stand Dreamhosting in very good stead.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Jeff left a comfortable Wall Street career to enter a world he knew little about. These small, back-office changes eventually led to the technological expertise underlying Amazon Web Services (AWS), by far the most successful public cloud computing platform. Growth Happens In Bounds And Leaps -- Of Faith. Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. Great post by John Shiple. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. They put on great events.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M Other large deals include Santa Barbara-based CytomX , with a $30.0M in funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

It’s about 10 minutes long. We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. I talked in specifics about a bunch of my investments including Factual , MongoLab , Maker Studios and Gogii (maker of TextPlus ). It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years. The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. Then you stop.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. It's a much smarter way of understanding shopping behavior, using data about human tastes to deliver recommendations to grocery consumers. We started Halla at that time, out of a classroom project, when we started thinking about businesses over Skype.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Cloud vendors have popped up everywhere it seems, from the tech giants everyone knows to plucky startups. Perhaps you’re considering using a cloud provider as well but worry about handing over data that’s vital to your operations as an organization. So how much should you trust a cloud provider? Is this mistrust merited?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

I promise I will never tweet about lousy music or that killer burrito I just ate. Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

” The pioneering fund of funds realize that their source of differentiation is much more about the latter than the former. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. But about that “bubble” we always hear about? The iPhone was released.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Everyone today is talking about cloud computing and putting everything in the cloud. However, have you ever wondered what the cloud actually looks like? We step into the Microsoft's Azure cloud and get a guided tour thanks to Frank Arrigo. Have you been able to touch?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

For example, new mobile devices are creating an era of cloud computing and BYOD (What is BYOD?). Believe it or not, only about half of UK companies have adopted some sort of BYOD policy, with only a dismal four percent having fully gone BYOD. The post IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption appeared first on TechZulu.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 19, 2013

Circa 1996, I ran into a former co-worker who had departed my then-current startup, Computer Motion (NASDAQ: RBOT, purchased by Intuitive Surgical), to join an Internet company. Confused, I asked him about his shirt. If you are afraid to talk about your startup, you will fail. Simply talking about your company is seldom risky.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s about how they automate the integration of the applications.” . “We’re automating as much of the manual software processes that require IT admins to put their hands on keyboards to adjust and optimize things,” said Miller.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm. Talk about what your products are used for?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The first result of that was VMware Cloud on AWS, which allowed customers to use the same VMware software and tools on AWS they were already familiar with. But at the end of the day, that was really about moving on-premises services to the cloud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2011

Cloud computing is still all the rage in the business world these days. A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.”

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