Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” The premise of the article is that in an increasingly online world ruled by techies who don’t want to talk on the phone, the era of being able to call the company in which you do business is winding down. Let me explain: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

However due to much controversy and competition, the same hasn’t played true while at large events (*cough* SXSW ). Few have tried in recently months with little success; generally due to city regulations on competing with the local taxi services, but Callaway’s social and brand presence should help this be success.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

These sessions are an opportunity to introduce employees to new software that will help streamline their project management or cover how to do a standard task more efficiently. . When hosting training meetings, be sure to record them so those who did not attend can review the content afterward and so future employees can access it.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These technology solutions allow large companies to utilize software products to source, screen and select hiring candidates. Companies can now customize complex algorithms to find the exact candidate through the power of cutting edge software. Here are four ways that big data is affecting the hiring process.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Companies have tried adding accessories , curving screens , or even making the whole thing modular. In a market full of underwhelming features and experiences, Superscreen proposes to be the most significant device of them all due to its simple purpose: unleash the power of your smartphone. Power Without Redundancy.

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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.” The power of large screen real estate. Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

Over the past few months Boston Startup School and it’s founders have reviewed hundreds of applications for their first class all while working very hard to get to know each and every candidate. .” -says Shaun Johnson, Co-Founder and COO of Boston Startup School. Something a “corporate” job would not do.) great jobs.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A number of Southern California inventors and companies have been recognized today by magazine Popular Mechanics , for their work on what the magazine says are "world changing" innovations. Aydogan Ozcan developed a device which can create digital holograms of samples, using hacked cellphone software, instead of expensive microscope lenses.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Rufus Labs is one of a number of hardware startups which have started to proliferate in the community, due to low cost hardware, 3D printing, and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Gabe Grifoni: The most advanced companies today are using devices that are hand held, like a tablet or smartphone.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Software as a service (SaaS) is a popular business model because it facilitates the delivery of incremental value to customers, while allowing the vendor to adjust their prices over time. Four companies which utilize this business model include, Vitrue , Sideqik , AppFolio and Invoca. Consistency Matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. The company might be planning something splashy for 2017, the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone. The biggest change: no more headphone plug. Let me explain.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. To do that, we've gotten pedestrians, doctors, and eco-experts involved in the company and helping us to determine the criteria we have published on the site. Between 1991 and 1995, I was in enterprise software and computer distribution.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2011

There is no other software to install. For the presenter, if you’d like to share your screen to the other participants, there is a bit of legwork to enable this. Meeting Burner requires you to download a Java applet and run it in order to share your screen to others.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

It also gives families access to a marketplace of hundreds of experienced caregivers in Southern California, with access to high-definition (HD) video profiles, rigorous background checks, social references and reviews. Careseekers can view caregivers by location on an inbuilt map, HD videos, social references and reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I wanted to be sure that they knew how much all of our partners loved what they were doing with their company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I wanted to be sure that they knew how much all of our partners loved what they were doing with their company.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

If Smucker’s can annually generate hundreds of millions in sales for a variety of food products, there is little risk that a mediocre company or product name will preclude you from achieving similar success. The value of an ideal name, attached to a product or company that does not deliver an economically viable value proposition, is zero.

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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. What's the story behind the company? What's the story behind the company?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Here are 4 areas / companies that I’m excited about: 1. My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. I got so excited about this company that I reached out to the CEO to enquire about fund raising. 5 companies presented and all were talented.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic? We weren't working with main street and small businesses, but public and private equity backed companies. The labor laws are not really stricter, just confusing. So, we don't want to mess with it, and we have more W-2 here.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

He also held senior management positions in strategic business development and marketing at several companies, including Cenveo, Webprint and Colorbus, Inc., inch LCD screen. Video Editing Software. ARCSOFT MEDIA IMPRESSION Software for Kodak (PC only). Read More about Jeffrey Here ). External microphone jack.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We spoke with Sunil Rajaraman, CEO and co-founder of the firm, about the company. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What's Scripped?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. What is Zunguz?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series on Start-up Lessons that I learned from founding two companies. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. Keiretsu Forum.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. This is tied to having consumers who feel confident enough to spend. So why the ’09 bounce?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

It started off with YouTube first and then we started to pull in some of the other popular channels from big and small companies and Pheebo TV grew from there. The bigger screen, the better. Then there was an article about us and then reviews started coming in and that was just a triumphant moment for us.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

While Lift and Uber allow people to request a pickup and ride from screen tested drivers to transport them and their friends safely to and from their destinations, Buddytruck fills a void that the ride-sharing services are sorely lacking, hauling of items. Unlike the two ride-sharing services, Buddytruk isn’t a ride-sharing service.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

It is a good thing that there is an app for everything today — work, social media, games, shopping, travel, photography, and schedule of movie screenings. It is no wonder that the average apps user spends 139 minutes per day browsing them, according to a report by Flurry, a company catering to app developers. We need an APP!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

Not quite satisfied with the lack of human connection in life behind a computer screen, Wang worked her way into Dealmoon leadership after a fateful meeting with her future business partners at a soccer match. She has come a long way since then, putting herself through Berkeley, where she studied computer engineering.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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