Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm RightScale announced today that the firm is partnering with a number of other software providers to deliver business intelligence software on its cloud management platform. Tags: rightscale cloud computing business intelligence. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.” Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. Cellphone penetration in the U.S. The audience is now the actors.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As student and staff populations grow, teachers rely more heavily on internet-intensive learning tools, and schools should embrace cloud technologies for data storage and access. Even so, schools are increasingly relying on cloud computing to store and handle data in lieu of managing data on local servers.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

For Las Vegas, Google’s launch partner is Aristocrat , which fittingly offers digital products for the gambling industry. “Cloud technologies enable two important outcomes for us,” said James Alvarez, CIO of Aristocrat. ” Google Cloud announces four new regions as it expands its global footprint.

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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? What's your background?

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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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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. With generation three of Eucalyptus, we are adding high availability into the actual product.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2015

Here’s one for executives of technology companies, or any company with next generation products in mind. Or finally, you may want to start a project using the next generation of tools to produce an entirely new product – but your development resources are all tied up with projects to enhance existing products.

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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. We brought that to the U.S.

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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. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

Although I’m not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the drivers for many startups. See if you understand each of these technologies: Internet of Things. Cloud Computing.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. So, we stopped our B-to-C product about a yaer ago, and since then have exclusively been licensing our technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Although I’m not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the driver for startups to fill in the gaps. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). But don’t be bound by it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Although I’m not an aficionado of checklists in general, I really appreciate one he has included for keeping up with the latest technological trends that are reshaping business strategies, which should be the drivers for many startups. See if you understand each of these technologies: Internet of Things. Cloud Computing.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. He was not an expert in technology, inventory logistics or publishing. Thus, smaller meetings facilitate efficiency and accountability. Growth Happens In Bounds And Leaps -- Of Faith.

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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. Talk about what your products are used for? We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm.

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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. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries. Their product the Boolean Box , is an all-in-one, hands-on, kit that can introduce your child to computer programming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.” Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

GE Healthcare, a unit of Boston-based industrial giant General Electric , recognized some limits on MRI scanners like its own, and started collaborating with Stanford University physicians more than five years ago on next-generation MRI technology to better diagnose people with heart disease. We see this as the first of many.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.” Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. Smartphone penetration in the U.S. The audience is now the actors.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.” Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

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. Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more.

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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 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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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. He was not an expert in technology, inventory logistics or publishing. The Two Pizza Rule.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Mark Weidick was VP and General Manager of Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where he was responsible for a team of 150 developers that built and supported video exchange platforms for AT&T and other Service Providers. Co-founder and COO Jack Blaeser was President of BT Conferencing Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

However, despite the movement of social computing into our daily lives we’re all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

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. How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. You – being members of the technology community. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I can’t be more of a FanBay of their products. Enter Apple.

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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. Newton said his vertical SaaS company helps legal professionals be more productive, grow their firms and “make legal services more accessible.”

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