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. Greycroft Ventures. greycroft.com. Section 32. www.section32.com. Moonshots Capital.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based cloud computing software developer Morphlabs said today that it has appointed Lee Thompson as its new Chief Technology Officer. Thompson has also served at Hewlett Packard's Consumer Travel and Transportation business units. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloud computing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Thursday, October 1, 2009 -- The End of Software: The Beginning of the Cloud. It's been a while since there has been as much hype and energy around a phrase like "cloud computing". What is cloud computing? What's a public cloud? What's a private cloud? Will business consumers embrace it?

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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. Hybrid cloud is pretty popular.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2016

John Greathouse: I am a Luddite when it comes to consumer gadgets! That said, I did enjoy this talk by a16z's Peter Levine regarding the future of cloud computing. John Greathouse: Not a new lesson learned, but I was reminded during the past year of the importance of working with people you trust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

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. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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MARCH 20, 2020

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. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Now, you had a whole new layer of infrastructure, cloud computing, which made it possible to create experiences on a scale that was not technically possible before, and at a do-able cost. Secondly, consumer behavior has really evolved since then. Our business model is based on selling entertainment to consumers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Michael Dubin , Dollar Shave Club (Los Angeles, consumer subscription). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). Steven Cox , TakeLessons (San Diego, marketplace). Asher Delug , Airpush (Los Angeles, advertising). Walter Driver , Scopely (Los Angeles, videogames).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. dot-com bonanza.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

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. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This caused Jeff and his team to focus on constantly making the less evident back-office processes, as well as the consumer-facing aspects of its business, incrementally better. Every time Amazon made a change to its website, whether it be modifications to its customer acquisition funnel, upsell techniques, customer service, etc.,

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

It's a much smarter way of understanding shopping behavior, using data about human tastes to deliver recommendations to grocery consumers. We first packaged that as a consumer app, to recommend dishes to people and groups of people, and even If you might have a craving. What was your decision to focus on food?

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Apply to be one of 32 cloud computing. BASSETT Executive Search Solutions (www.BassettSearch.com) The confidential. source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high. on April 24, 2009. Do you have what it takes? socalTECH readers.

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JULY 7, 2014

According to this latest report, technologies at the overhyped stage include "big data", consumer 3D printing, gamification, and wearable user interfaces. The trough of disillusionment includes mobile health monitoring, NFC and cloud computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. At least in the consumer & business web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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MARCH 27, 2009

tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Apply to be one of 32 cloud computing. BASSETT Executive Search Solutions (www.BassettSearch.com) The confidential. source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high. April 24, 2009. Do you have what it takes? 50% Off Conference Passes for.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

However, TenHands’ “special sauce” is in its groundbreaking architecture as the 1st to deliver personal (desktop, mobile) video as a virtualized cloud computing solution and the 1st to commercialize WebRTC - the catalyst behind the effort to revolutionize the way we use our browsers to communicate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

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. I’m not talking here about a small pivot.

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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. Financial services is an interesting case: 63% of all consumers looking to buy financial services now research online but only 33% actually buy online. (3)

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

We consume most of our media digitally—whether it’s music, text or video. It created PC software; desktop publishing; streaming media; e-tailing; modern cellular service; commercial cloud computing; and online government data for the management of cities. Just look at how we’re living right now.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Today, the “device mesh,” as Gartner describes it, has rapidly expanded to include a wide range of end points such as mobile devices, wearables, consumer electronics, and automotive devices. Already, many online retailers enable consumers to begin shopping on one device, and end on another.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. The iPhone was released.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

The Internet is turning into a business tool with everything from cloud computing to premium Internet providers. These two new types of Internet would be the same for consumers and businesses alike across the board. Not even the dot com giants would have been spared from this new fee hike. Companies like Etsy and eBay aside.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

But consumers don’t always want to buy that way. But, when it comes to tracking what ad placement or publisher was responsible for getting a consumer to pick up the phone and call, that’s pretty difficult. Mobile, social and video are changing consumer behavior and advertising as we know it.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This caused Jeff and his team to focus on constantly making the less evident back-office processes, as well as the consumer-facing aspects of its business, incrementally better. Every time Amazon made a change to its website, whether it be modifications to its customer acquisition funnel, upsell techniques, customer service, etc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Literally, I mean everyone… pets included, with Tagg , a Qualcomm backed venture that allows consumers to track their dogs via mobile or computer access. Direct Cloud Computing and Storage. Definitely nifty for those that value a high level of security for their online shopping.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A good example of how cloud-based technology can improve operational efficiency is via remote diagnostics, such as the services from Agilent. Remote Advisor (RA) is one way many users of Agilent-manufactured equipment improve instrument up-time and track consumable use. Advanced analytics.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The combination of these features resulted in a product which had broad consumer applicability while VNC remained a niche feature utilized primarily by a small number of technically proficient users.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The combination of these features resulted in a product which had broad consumer applicability while VNC remained a niche feature utilized primarily by a small number of technically proficient users.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. There are 20x more consumers online. As of January 2012 consumers were watching 4 BILLION video views per day on YouTube. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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