Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

Cloud computing is all the rage in the startup 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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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.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

“Much like how Microsoft Windows defined the operating system for personal computers decades ago, Clio has developed a software platform for law firms and their clients that is cloud-based and client-centric by design,” Newton said. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Kazuhm , a startup developing a distributed computing workload platform, has received a funding round from Analytics Ventures, Analytics said this week. Size of the investment was not announced. Tim O'Neal, a former executive at Intuit, is CEO of Kazuhm. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. This encouraged them to deploy logical, common sense solutions that were in the best interest of its customers. 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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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

“That new offering changed the direction of the company and added velocity and customers and the market responded so well to it,” said Replicated chief executive, Grant Miller. “If you are a company like Puppet, you have hundreds of on-premise customers.” “Once we started building on that success.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2016

Calabasas-based audio processing technology developer DTS is linking into Microsoft's cloud computing service, Microsoft Azure, according to the company. According to DTS, its content encoding technology will be available via the cloud through Microsoft Azure's Media Encoder Premium service. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Be Simpleminded.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Investors’ confidence in Open Raven’s potential stems from the simple fact that a majority of all databases will be accessed from a cloud platform within the next two years , according to data from Gartner Inc. and provided by the company. The core functionality will be available for free under an Apache 2.0

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2018

In a move designed to attract more customers from the media and entertainment industry, Google said this week that it will be opening up a new Los Angeles cloud region to its cloud computing platform, Google Cloud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 21, 2015

The hype surrounding cloud computing is not easily dismissed, especially considering how many businesses are adopting it for their operations. The benefits of the cloud are by now well-documented, helping companies become more productive, reach news levels of capabilities, and save on costs in the long run.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

The more a customer utilized WebEx’s services, the more they had to pay. Even though such enduring strategies are often difficult and expensive to execute, they generally result in greater value creation for the company’s customers, founders, employees and investors. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. Exploring The Campus.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S., with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; In total, Google now offers its customers the option to host their applications in 23 regions globally; with the opening of this new region, it now has seven U.S.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As your business grows more complex and there are more employees to manage and more customers to care for, slowly you will notice that more and more time of your chief innovation officer or system architect or R&D department is spent focused upon enhancements in response to needs of the user base. First, let’s recognize the problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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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. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says.

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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. Cloud computing is also very important. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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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. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. Accept no excuses.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2015

As your business grows more complex and there are more employees to manage and more customers to care for, slowly you will notice that more and more time of your chief innovation officer or system architect or R&D department is spent focused upon enhancements in response to needs of the user base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 22, 2013

The impact of this is that hyper-speed, hyper-scale advertising automation/decisioning platforms now require hardware that’s faster than hardware required to scale Web sites or mobile applications. At Rubicon Project, we’ve engineered the world’s first real-time cloud computing technology.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even so, schools are increasingly relying on cloud computing to store and handle data in lieu of managing data on local servers. The global cloud computing market for education is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of over 26 percent between 2017 and 2021 1. .

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Even though most services are usually not subject to sales tax, some states are now asserting that certain online services are taxable either as software, data processing, or information services, even if the type of service would not be taxable if delivered the old fashioned way – by people – rather than computing platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. They have the energy, the passion, and the integrity it takes to transform this sector.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Mark Weidick was VP and General Manager of Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where he was responsible for a team of 150 developers that built and supported video exchange platforms for AT&T and other Service Providers. We even have the ability to run in partner or customer own data centers where desired.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the cloud price wars have flared up once again. After taking a brief hiatus amidst nervous tensions, competition between cloud computing vendors has reached a fever pitch in the past month. The cloud price wars (sometimes known as the “Race to Zero”) aren’t exactly a new phenomenon.

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