Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. The worst thing that can happen to any company is waking up one morning and finding out all the data has either been stolen or tampered with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A specific example of a platform failure in this space, Neighborrow , enabled sharing of relatively low-value items (like power tools, bikes, and kitchenware), where the money saved was often offset by the inconvenience of pickup and delivery. Unused assets, as well as your free time, have no value on the shelf, and should be marketed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

Facebook, for example, ended up raising almost $16 billion through its IPO. As a public company executive, your management style, and even your personal life, is subject to extensive scrutiny by stock analysts and stockholders. Private companies are largely exempt from these reporting requirements.

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Entrepreneur Startup Report Statistics 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

VCs want you to raise the “appropriate” amount of capital, which I would define as what is reasonable given your progress to date, your resources and your needs for an 18–24 month period. In the example I’ve provided I assume you’re raising $5 million by month 4 of your plan.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in. Vinny Jindal: We're in private beta right now, and we're growing the user group in a private beta.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I was pleased to find a new book, “ The Entrepreneur’s Faces, ” by Johnathan Littman and Susanna Camp, which outlines the key stages and provides examples of real people making the transformation from one stage to the next. Maybe you are more comfortable going slow, with limited resources, or aiming high and giving up equity.

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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. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. Winston Damarillo: This is my fourth company.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2013

One local company which is looking to change that is EV Connect (www.evconnect.com), which installs and runs charging stations for companies. Jordan Ramer: We''re a technology company that enables electric vehicle charging management, what we call private charging networks. What is EV Connect? That happens in two places.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies. The power of large screen real estate.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

What's different with Younity, is instead of creating another cloud and walled garden, we're actually incorporating the resources you already have, such as the storage on your devices, and over time, your other online services, photos, and documents. You can share those resources between both computers. What's your background?

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

If they are trying to acquire audiences and attention, for example, on the Westwide of Los Angeles or West Village, New York, we go after very acute areas and try to drive more grass root efforts, but doing it in a programmatic fashion. We have the data where those universities are, we have the human resources and curated marketing labor.

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Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

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. According to Marten, “We enable companies to run, within their own firewall, a cloud that behaves exactly like the public clouds, exactly like Amazon. A good example is the shoemaker Puma.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As more companies become highly dependent on technology, the need for dependable and secure network infrastructure resources grows as well. Some enterprises have adopted privately operated services to meet their needs. Successful companies should also look for a provider that’s equipped to grow with them.

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Networking Services .Net Southern California 55

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift was selected as the topic data supplier for Facebook , which allows companies to analyze a data feed that is > 20x larger than the entire Twitter feed and creates privacy-safe insights from a network of 1.4 Public, social data plus private internal data = real corporate intelligence. billion people.

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Platform Course Customer Custom 150

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. Our company had actually acquired a few different websites about two and a half years back. If you look at Google Panda, they want you to be the best possible resource for a specific thing.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

According to the new report, San Diego now has more than 104 private cybersecurity firms that employ 4,230 people in the region, according to the analysis. Of the companies surveyed, 43 percent said they have a national customer base, and 37 percent have an international base. That represents a 9.5

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San Diego Study Outsource Development Report 69

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are like DC Comic’s evil villainess, Poison Ivy. You will no doubt craft agreements with companies of similar or even smaller size to your own. Ever negotiate with lawyers at a huge company? The allure of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Paul Somerson, Author.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Resource Press 244

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful. It’s hard enough to build a successful company.

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Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the frameworks data mapping code. Code examples. ActiveRecord).

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the framework''s data mapping code. Code examples.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But SoCal’s growing companies contend with their own set of challenges, including the increasing importance of scalable network solutions. Companies can no longer rely on standard network solutions, they need scalable infrastructure and business internet service that can meet rapidly escalating needs. trillion. ¹.

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Southern California Services Demand SoCal 60

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

On a micro level, I also make a strong effort to get to know local entrepreneurs on an individual level and being a reliable resource for them. For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 Another local company, CoSchedule , just attracted $2.2 Another local company, CoSchedule , just attracted $2.2 That’s tough to say.

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Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I was previously at Salesforce Ventures for almost four years, focused on investments in companies in the enterprise software space which were strategic to Salesforce. I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud.

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Capital Entrepreneur Invest Artificial Inteligence 162

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

We caught up with Wade Eyerly , co-founder of the company, who told us the story behind the company, and how it hopes to bring unlimited flights from local regional airports, via a subscription model, to the market. Wade Eyerly: Basically, it's a flat fee, subscription, all-you-can fly private plane service. government.

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Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2012

www.dandb.com) and applying what he's learned over the years running Internet companies to the venerable brand. The firm is backed by more than $100M in funding from private equity firm Great Hill Partners. Jeffrey Stibel: My team and I have probably invested in thirty five companies in Los Angeles in the last year.

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Malibu Startup Los Angeles Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean?

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. FWIW my private goal was 3:45 but I missed that. You Manage What you Measure. On measurement.

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

NAIS is a nonprofit membership association that provides services to more than 1,800 schools and associations of schools in the United States and abroad, including more than 1,500 independent private K-12 schools in the U.S. Improve internal resource allocation. Their research identified four segments in their marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. ” In that post I talked about how a few key people in any community can have an enormous impact on the fledgling success of the city or company. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld.

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Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2017

He speaks from years of work with companies now leading the way, including Walt Disney, HBO, and Morgan Stanley. In my view, every company needs to follow all his action items, including the ones paraphrased here: CEO takes charge personally of improving engagement. Leaders walk the talk and use a democratic approach.

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Mentor Startup Training Resource 57

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. To hear about the company, we spoke with Ramit Varma , co-founder of the company. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same. Who came in the office at 2am when the servers crashed – even on the night of the big company party. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. You’ve heard that a million times. Those that we survive with become family.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. The money slide is the graphic below.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Between the barrage of security breaches making headlines on a regular basis and the constant threat of hackers, protecting sensitive company data has to be a priority. Remote work can put a strain on privacy, as companies now have the additional vulnerabilities of staff using their personal (or public) WiFi and sometimes personal computers.

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Tips Software Review Study Email 157

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

You can issue multiple numbers at one time, give each of them a name, and each of them operates as a standby, private line on your iPhone. The example is a venture capitalist who might want to take calls from entrepreneurs, or a celebrity or someone who might be an expert in a field, like law or accounting.

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Yahoo Startup Mobile Ideas 200

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You took the risk to start your company. Startups have to be optimists because no rational person would actually believe you could build Uber into the amazing company that it is today. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1. I worked with a startup CEO who decided he wanted to sell his company.

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Startup Course Venture Capital Writing 417