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. How did the idea for the company come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Yesterday I wrote about how to talk to investors about your competitors. In short, acknowledge they exist, be transparent about strengths & weaknesses and use your differences to talk about how you want to position yourself in the market. But forget talking about them, how should you actually treat your competitors?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service , which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Like many I read the headlines about Pinterest moving from Palo Alto to San Francisco and thought about the trend it portends. Palo Also is about 35 miles south of San Francisco. For those not familiar with the local geography, Palo Alto is the north end of what most consider “Silicon Valley” although nobody local calls it that.

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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. First, for those not familiar with DreamHost, talk about what your company does? So, for us, competition is good.

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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

JULY 10, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. 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. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# or “tell us what you’re doing about location-based services?&# ). Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund. The model is all wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm. Talk about what your products are used for?

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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. However, the New York Department of Taxation recently said that an online healthcare service company must collect sales tax from its customers. For example, medical services are generally not subject to sales tax.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

But now that’s changing, because of the power of cloud-based software. Unlike traditional software, cloud-based software is deployed on a central server and ‘rented’ by each organization or scientist as needed. Using the cloud, newly purchased software can be set up in a matter of minutes, instead of taking weeks.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. Our motto is, ‘ease of use equals use and use equals revenue.’

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

And then came the debate about storage. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? Think about it. Business Logic.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I would say the same thing about True Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our first-of-its-kind architecture yields a delivery cost model that is highly disruptive and that translates to great affordability for our customers. We even have the ability to run in partner or customer own data centers where desired.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Technology is crucial for innovation—and innovation in technology is critical to innovation in just about every other arena. 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.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

The more a customer utilized WebEx’s services, the more they had to pay. WebEx also charged exorbitant setup fees (again, much like cellular carriers), averaging about $4,000. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. Exploring The Campus.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Of course it’s important to equip your partners and employees with the best technology to do their jobs, but it’s also important to find computers that are easily portable and affordable for your current budget. Things to Keep in Mind About Chromebook Operation. Google Chromebook Pixel.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2016

This mindset has taken a bit longer to truly take hold in part because it’s all about the bigger picture. Larger companies have used big data for years to analyze customers, improve their operations, and forecast future trends, but as the efficiency surrounding using analytics has improved, the cost has gone down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The Exit Problem.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. All about end-user requests.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Inquire about discounts. Ask your suppliers about the discounts they offer and what you need to do to receive them. Take advantage of the Cloud. Cloud computing technologies can reduce your startup expenses, improve cash flow, and boost productivity. Lease, don’t buy.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. Stop Listening to Your Customers. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

But it’s now looking to be a banner year for significant advances in social software standards and technologies, many of them to address well-known shortcomings and inconveniences in today’s Web 2.0 They also come in many different types from syndication formats like RSS and Atom to custom API streams.

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