Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Managing Director: Ryan Blair Investment interests: Companies which leverage direct-to-consumer model. Section 32. www.section32.com. Fund size: $230M fund. Okapi Ventures. Fika Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. The first offerings will be launching in the beginning of 2019, but the company has dozens of customers already using its pilot, McCorkle said.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million. Last year, the company unveiled its tools for managing Kubernetes deployments and immediately saw sales increase. “Once we started building on that success.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus has upgraded its cloud computing software, saying last week that it has released Eucalyptus 3, its third generation infrastructure-as-a-service software for cloud computing. The software is aimed at enterprises, who want to maintain private and hybrid clouds. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Today, Google, and cloud computing companies more broadly, are doing to Microsoft what Microsoft did to IBM. Profits are moving up the value chain from on-device software to software-as-a-service in the cloud. This is manifesting as OS and software licensing revenues are shrinking as cloud-hosted SaaS apps are growing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. The firm has now raise $58.10M in funding.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh , a developer of cloud computing management software, announced today that it has raised $15M in a funding round. ServiceMesh provides software to help enterprise business units self-provision cloud infrastructure and enterprise apps. The round came from Ignition Partners. READ MORE>>.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

The firm said it is targeting hosting, SaaS, social network, content distribution networks, and cloud computing companies with the hardware. The firm said its new E Series EX accelerator now supports 10Gbps throughput, and accelerates TCP traffic 2 to 5 times. Pricing on the new product was not released.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

San Antonio —Cloud computing giant Rackspace has acquired a company that helps other businesses implement and use the Salesforce software. The deal expands Rackspace’s focus on helping companies use software and computing services, including those of previous competitors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The two companies said the investment and strategic partnership will help them accelerate business expansion into the global market and the enterprise cloud computing market. Morphlabs said that BroadBand Tower has been using its platform since late 2009. Morphlabs is headed by serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must decide when to stop listening to the Sirens’ song of a quick buck and position their company to take advantage of long-term, sustainable business models. Below are descriptions of three companies which each faced short-term, lucrative opportunities. Bad Profits. Arbitrage Is Fleeting. Scaling Right.

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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. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

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.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 15, 2019

The company says its software allows developers to couple deep learning with. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

San Diego’s ResMed (NYSE: ticker[[RMD]]) announced its intention to buy the privately held tech company on Monday. Medical device maker ResMed has agreed to acquire Minnesota-based MatrixCare, which makes software for long-term care providers, for $750 million.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Andrian Pawluk was living in San Diego when Teradata hired him this year and tasked him with transforming 65,000 square feet of offices into an alluring workspace for techies, but he had never previously heard of the data warehouse and business analytics company.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. You work in (or run) a services company. Intrapreneurship: Embracing Disruptive Innovation Within Your Company. The last couple of years have seen a significant increase in IT and interactive companies placing be.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. Enter Apple.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

cloud computing, open APIs, and other major advances, the ideas in software these days are increasingly coming from the consumer world and then pushing their way into the enterprise realm. . | A Few Small Changes May Dramatically Increase Your Efficiency VMware Companies have rapidly adopted server virtualization over the past few.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. The round propels the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company to unicorn status, valuing it at $1.6 Rowe Price Associates Inc. Image Credits: Clio.

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