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.&#. Not Google. Amazon changed our industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

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.

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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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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

MAY 14, 2015

There’s a lot of concern about whether or not organizations will feel the effects of an IT talent shortage over the coming years. In fact, women account for only 25 percent of IT professionals at major tech companies like Google and Apple. In fact, there’s been a talent shortage in the IT field for quite some time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2014

We will go much farther than connected homes into to the quantified self and to connected devices like Google Glass, bringing infinite possibilities to life. What is this Internet of Things you’re talking about? Ultimately, the Internet of Things will allow us to connect in ways we never dreamed possible. Sound complicated?

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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. Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times. All about end-user requests. Must be willing to work the way Google expects.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Most people would think of science fiction of some niche prototype device, if they knew about the concept of wearable tech at all. Ask somebody today to describe wearable technology to you, and they’ll probably talk about the latest round of smart watches, or maybe Google Glass.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Either of those will probably fill up pretty fast, but this is an ultrabook: Buy an external drive to store all your important documents, no matter what you are working on, or just use the cloud, such as Dropbox or Google. Speaking of accessories, this computer comes with a couple USB 3.0 Be careful when matching accessories.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

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. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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Tech Zulu Event

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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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. Pure excitement isn’t either.

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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. It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. In fact, so many DID NOT that companies like Google & Yahoo! And Facebook.

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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?&# ). Google would soon follow with their own phones, it was rumored.

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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%.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

WebEx also charged exorbitant setup fees (again, much like cellular carriers), averaging about $4,000. In particular, the Google AdWord market matured, making it increasingly difficult for lead generation operators to profitably purchase keywords that would motivate qualified users to complete a lead form. Scaling Right.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). I always worry about companies that spread themselves too broadly.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services. Let us know in the comments if youve used JanRain Engage for your site or if theres anything else youd like to know about it. The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Posted on 9 September 2010 | 3:25 pm Hi Ben.

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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. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. .

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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. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square).

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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. For example, Chad Dickerson, the CEO of the online craft marketplace Etsy testified before the FCC last Thursday about how “Paid Prioritization” would make it impossible for Etsy to operate, let alone survive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

And then came the debate about storage. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. I guess the “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap&# mentality convinced this retailer that they could do the same with cloud services. Work it did.

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