Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Small- to medium-sized businesses may lack the resources and IT expertise to manage, protect, and upgrade their networks effectively compared to larger, more enterprise-level companies. Top Small- to Medium-Sized Company Network Challenges. For many smaller organizations, employees wear several hats. Small Budgets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

SalesRabbit offers up both native mobile and web-based software aimed at field sales organizations. The company is based in Utah. Financial details of the investment were not announced, however, Diversis said it provided a "significant growth investment" to SalesRabbit.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. But where do the software development companies in Southern California congregate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. Company amazingly finds you based on your interests.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based Reliam , which provides managed services to help companies manage their operation on public cloud services like Amazon Web Services, has received a $75M commitment from private equity investor Great Hill Partners. Reliam was founded by Nate Johnson, who becomes President of the company. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 30, 2009

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 -- Establishing Quality Knowledge Management Practices In Your Organization: A Systems Thinking Approach. Over the last ten years, companies have sought to find ways to use information systems to capture, store, manage, and reuse the knowledge of the firm - a practice referred to as Knowledge Management (KM).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Pixellot says its technology allows any sports organization--including high schools and youth sports organizations--to automatically product sports videos for streaming to mobile devices and web platforms. Pixellot has now raised more than $40M in funding.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0 I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. Really fun stuff these days.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Syndio Solutions , a developer of web-based software to help companies ensure compliance with state and federal equal pay for equal work laws, has raised $650,000 in its seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Frontier Ventures. Syndio is led by CEO Robert Miller. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

As federal agency employees miss their first paychecks today due to the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22, federal contractors and their workers—including technology professionals—face a loss of income that they may never recover. Government stop work orders have been.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. The goal of the company is simple: minimize Americans’ bill pay stress by making it easy to pay any bill with their mobile device.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. 22, 2010.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2009

Visitors to our web site are most likely familiar with our Insights and Opinions section, where we share advice, opinions, insights, and more from our readers. The latest contributions: Docstoc's Jason Nazar gives a primer on The 7 Ways to Get Traffic On The Web. Mixergy's Andrew Warner --who organizes the Lunch 2.0

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2017

According to Zadara, organizations in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico can use its services at no charge for six months while they rebuild their business infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2023

Consider collaborating via shared marketing efforts, trade-show both space, co-branding promotional products, referral agreements, and cross-linking web sites. Make sure your users don’t have to think, and participating in your call to action is intuitive and organic. With informality, these must be win-win relationships.

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Marketing Technical Review Startup Innocal 107

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The American Seed Company, as shown in the accompany ad, encouraged young people to sign a simple “contract” that read: “Please send me your Big Prize book and one order of 45 packs of American Seeds. Newspaper delivery was not the only way that children in the US’s pre-litigious era could learn and deploy important entrepreneurial skills.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Bobbie One startup that's proved to have the formula for success this year is Bobbie – the first infant formula to be certified as organic by the USDA, and the fastest-growing product of its kind to enter the US market since the 1980s. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million site visits in October alone.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2017

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs). Founding CEO Kevin Lustig said Scientist.com will use the additional cash to expand its operations. Lustig argued.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Quickly address every negative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2020

Consider collaborating via shared marketing efforts, trade-show both space, co-branding promotional products, referral agreements, and cross-linking web sites. Make sure your users don’t have to think, and participating in your call to action is intuitive and organic. With informality, these must be win-win relationships.

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Mobile Marketing Technical Review Startup 173

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $53B public company, and now growing revenue. In my view, the pendulum is swinging back, with investors looking more for the traditional indications of business integrity, stability, and growth: Some element of organic growth is a good thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. Most people accept that no person or organization is perfect. Quickly address every negative.

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Web Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $35B public company, and now growing revenue. In my view, the pendulum is swinging back, with investors looking more for the traditional indications of business integrity, stability, and growth: Some element of organic growth is a good thing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2013

The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels. The software helps those companies publish their own data on their websites, by surfacing fresh content to help engage consumers. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Services 98

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based Nationbuilder , the startup developing online tools which helps organizations create web sites, organize volunteers, outreach to supporters, and more, is expanding its efforts beyond politics, the company said Tuesday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. Here there is no substitute for independent analysis from experts outside the organizations involved. Multiple marketing tactics seek to share attribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If they read it and like it, do they click through to your web site, or engage with your organization in new and different ways? Action is when people are drawn into a profitable and sustainable relationship with your company. Measure customer response and action. That’s where the money is. Get the message from your customer.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. Shows on the site are handpicked by a team of editors and organized into several categories. To date, Blip.tv boasts more than 3 billion video views.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Despite a packed schedule of obnoxious tweeting, lawsuits, and organizing a cage match with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk has found time to launch a new AI company called xAI. Remove Your Date From the Web Today Incogni by Surfshark can help you reclaim your information from third-party vendors. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Technical Review 115

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , a startup developing an online system to help political candidates and other organizations to create web sites, organize volunteers, coordinate campaigns, and more, said Thursday that it has raised $6.3M in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2016

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , which develops software to help organize communities, run political campaigns and nonprofits, and more, has rolled out a new A/B testing tool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in.

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