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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people. This is why I say that Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media. I guess I should confess that I used to go to a lot more networking events.

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Explaining FNAC: Feature, Not a Company

Both Sides of the Table

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing. With Google or Amazon , you can get all the application storage and computing power you need without even thinking about an IT staff and big up-front costs for computer servers and applications. Take advantage of social media and free websites for marketing.

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Why Online / Offline Mobile Integration is Going to be a Huge Business

Both Sides of the Table

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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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. 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.

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Great Startups Sell Around Gartner Hype Predictions

Startup Professionals Musings

The trough of disillusionment includes NFC for mobile payments, cloud computing, gesture control, virtual worlds, and more. Media tablets, biometric authentication, and speech recognition are on the slope of enlightenment, and predictive analytics is now in the plateau of productivity.

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Entrepreneurs Challenge The Gartner Hype Cycle

Startup Professionals Musings

New this year are application services and outsourcing, cloud application infrastructure services, cloud security, privacy and smart cities. According to the report, private cloud computing, NFC and Internet TV are at the moment overvalued. It’s definitely worth a look.