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?

Cloud Computing 217

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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. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency. Being Simpleminded Is A Good Thing. You have to use your judgment. Let’s do it.’” .

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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.

Cloud Computing 85

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. What is Sendgrid?

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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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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But today, online companies that sell services rather than merchandise also need to be concerned about state sales taxes. Online service companies need to be aware of these potential tax traps so they are not surprised when a state tax agency comes knocking on their door.

Sales 62

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

Build a great team that is focused on providing a unique product or service that offers something of great value that your customers simply cannot live without. Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe Those 10x deals everyone seems to be hunting are few and far between. maybe even 10x.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. We are the cloud platform, so we form the cloud for you. RightScale is the management tool of the cloud.

Cloud Computing 212

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences.

Artificial Inteligence 106

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

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. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. What's Morphlabs?

Southern California 242

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

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. It may be a chaotic time, but customers are the ones who are benefitting the most.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and. customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. Apply to be one of 32 cloud computing. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Technology.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In homage to The Dude’s sentiment, tech startup Akanda Virtual Networking named its open source project The Rug because it “ties together” OpenStack networks by managing orchestration, routing and other key network services. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Six Reasons Why The Time Is Now.

IBM 100

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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. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. They know what you bought the last time you were shopping.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio.

Cloud Computing 65

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

application services (security, integration), etc. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. I would tend to agree.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. However, the most effective way to minimize dilution is to extract capital from customers’ pockets.

Entrepreneur 140

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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. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. .”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

UCLA 102

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Check out Treatsa and send a. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Idealab 77

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing service of Amazon, has launched anew Los Angeles zone, which will give local customers and companies much faster access to the AWS cloud.

Los Angeles 100

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Check out Treatsa and send a. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Idealab 49

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. However, the most effective way to minimize dilution is to extract capital from customers’ pockets.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Invest Funding Capital 157

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. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

Software Review 238

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Finding business agility in the cloud. Chief Digital Officers.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.

Cloud Computing 176

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. or “tell us what you’re doing about location-based services?&# ). It came to me. Enter Apple.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

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%. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. In fact, the majority of Americans are now carrying computers in their front pockets.

Venture Capital 347

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. The more a customer utilized WebEx’s services, the more they had to pay. Rather than encouraging users to maximize the value from their service, they effectively punished them for their increased usage. A typical 60-minute meeting with one attendee cost $54. Scaling Right.

Entrepreneur 225

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 29

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. You work in (or run) a services company. Building a web app is the easy part.

Guide 69

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete. It’s remarkable.

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

The Internet is turning into a business tool with everything from cloud computing to premium Internet providers. When you break this entire issue down to its bare bones, the only businesses that are going to be hurt by this ruling are the major Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.

.Net 40

.Net Netflix Web Cloud Computing 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Let me explain. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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