socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

achieved a market cap of $1 billion or more. 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. Those 10x deals everyone seems to be hunting are few and far between. So how do you address these odds and win?

Capital 100

Capital Cloud Computing Southern California Equity 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 19, 2013

Stealth Mode = Alibi For Bad Marketing. When executed appropriately, first movers could create brand awareness, lock inkey industry stakeholders and subsequently achieve market dominance. Stealth mode impacts a company''s maturation in the following four ways: 1) Slows down determination of the proper product / market fit.

Cloud Computing 176

Cloud Computing Web Entrepreneur Marketing 176

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. 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. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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. That strikes me as an attractive market for disruption over time. They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. They know what you bought the last time you were shopping.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Chicago-based GE Healthcare is now about to go to market with the new magnetic resonance imaging technique. Arterys feeds the gigabytes of MRI information into its Web-based software application, which takes advantage of the outside computing power now broadly available from the network of servers-for-hire we call “the cloud.”

Cloud Computing 40

Cloud Computing Startup Web Chief Technology Officer 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

A quick web search of items before their time will provide a long list of gadgets and machines rejected by our predecessors which are now shaping our future. There are a number of reasons an innovative product might fail. There are a number of reasons an innovative product might fail.

Cloud Computing 40

Cloud Computing CIO Mobile Networking 40

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. In each case, they successfully migrated their go-to-market strategies to one based on long-term sustainability. Arbitrage Is Fleeting. Scaling Right.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Management Is Not Fungible – UnVCs tend to invest in serial entrepreneur teams, not market spaces or ideas.

Entrepreneur 140

Entrepreneur Cloud Computing Invest Funding 140

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

At Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), our VP of Product and Customer Experience led a number of teams during his seven-year tenure including Professional Services, Customer Service and Product Management. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire powers voice and text messaging applications that enable businesses, government agencies and grassroots organizations to instantly and affordably communicate with key audiences.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Management Is Not Fungible – UnVCs tend to invest in serial entrepreneur teams, not market spaces or ideas.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Invest Funding Capital 157

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California. Diamond Sponsor.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. The result is a 2Mbyte royalty free plug-in that is remarkably easy to integrate with other web-based applications. How unique are you from the competition if you have any?

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California. Diamond Sponsor.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And post production. I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. And costume & set designers. And sound engineers. And writers! And even … yes … actors.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I believe that you need to have product excellence in order to scale to being a really big business and that’s pretty tough when you have such a wide remit.

Screening 266

Screening Screencast Web Yammer 266

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Unprecedented transparency of information. Why Deflationary Business Win.

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations. We raised $16.5 Processing.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343