Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others. The amount of money we save for follow-ons is called “reserves.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs. 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. A number of companies in the portfolio delivered very strong operating results in 2010, which is exciting. There are lots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Legal Officer.

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

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.&#. Them vs. Us.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Middle Market Investment Banking. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX. And, from that respect, the success of the MetaCX round speaks volumes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2016

This is especially true when considering the fact that all interaction now takes place in a cloud-first, mobile-first world. IT professionals are now shouldering the responsibility of setting up system alerts for their networks that help to guard against system compromise. Additionally, the company is currently boasting a 99.95

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. Thinking visually can help. John Sculley, in his classic book “ Moonshot!: Learn more every day in layers.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Halla exists to help people understand a more curious world. When you say you help people make better choices, what does that look like to a user? Spencer Price: That's a fair question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. Thinking visually can help. John Sculley, in his new book “ Moonshot!: Learn more every day in layers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2018

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. Thinking visually can help. John Sculley, in his classic book “ Moonshot!: Learn more every day in layers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 14, 2015

Organizations are looking for professionals with very specific specialties, like data science, cloud computing and machine learning. Instant Gratification Instead of Investment. The problem is, there just aren’t enough people with these skills. Instead they hold out, and suffer the consequences of being understaffed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing. Building the prototype can be fun.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Their award-winning SugarCoded app takes the girls through coding tutorials, games and e-books to help them learn. . Their company helps developers bring security to their apps and devices with minimal code. Through their crypto and key management, they help make data protection a simple process.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

In fact, contestants were even given a chance to call a friend and poll the audience for help. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value. The payout was also unique.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Upwork can help you connect with a vetted freelancer to handle almost any job, from data entry to lead generation, and Flinja.com is an excellent source for finding some of the nation’s top students for hire. Some service plans also allow you to lock in your rate, which keeps costs low for years to come and helps with budgeting.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

In fact, contestants were even given a chance to call a friend and poll the audience for help. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value. The payout was also unique.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Our platform helps them do that. Our partners put a lot of trust in us.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). Financing and Business Planning. Recommended.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. For the past four years, TECH cocktail has been journalistically covering and helping rally together. Joel Bush, Amplifier.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

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. But they do small, seed like investments when they like the entrepreneurs. They’re active, helpful and wise. I told Sean Rad at Ad.ly

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The power of the web increased dramatically and “Cloud Computing&# began to take a huge leap forward. I have been pitched by too many companies that want to help every brand discover their inner iPhone self. I hope to soon announce an investment that relies on the mobile application infrastructure in the short-to-mid term.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. There are others as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

“Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together. OK, so that could mean a lot of things. If Skype continues its growth eBay should at least see a return on its investment. I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing. I’m spotting another trend. Skype is king.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem. All have been fascinating. He also consults companies in Asia.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity.

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