socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Think Glendale.

Southern California 140

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Oracle Startup News Press 229

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. It takes time to sell in your software, get it implemented, prove the value, build a business case, gain executive support and then roll it out more broadly. What Do You Need to Prove to Raise an A Round?

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Startups Made Simple.

Advertising 113

Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Mark has led two public company software companies before – both to billion-dollar outcomes.

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Demand SaaS Startup Sales 150

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. 50% Off Conference Passes for. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Inventory your items with photos, store it in physical storage, demand back items when you wanted them and only what you wanted. They built the software. The first one out even won a major tech conference award. But after several years on the road I had no f **g clue what was in my storage facility any more. Did she have it?

UCSD 340

UCSD Startup Ideas Course 340

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. 50% Off Conference Passes for. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com).

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. CTO at SOA Software.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Relationships are best built while working and learning together, rather than over drinks at a mixer or industry conference. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tool Design Demand 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Only those of us who learn to practice continuous learning will survive and flourish as we move forward into an unknown business world where more and more intelligent machines and software will do most of the work we know in business today. None of us can keep up on every new thing in this knowledge abundant world. Make the investment.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

“How much is that software really worth? We were building a VC backed software business so I had to focus on the product business. Yet you can run a conference and mint money. If it’s well run, people readily pay for conferences and sponsors readily pay to become platinum, gold or silver sponsors.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

Startup 113

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

At O ctober’s ICANN 51 conference in Los Angeles , the ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse was tasked with explaining the new Internet landscape to attendees. Demand for that knowledge is growing, as far as we can see.” “[The Clearinghouse] could be seen as the solution to an invented problem,” said Edwards.

Conference 77

Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

If you are a software service provider, set your sights on this particular security trend. Consider a tabtop, a hybrid tablet and laptop, which can be used in isolation at the workstation or in meetings at the conference room. Use productivity aids that can keep up with the demands of the time. Application Security.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Startup Mobile Software Review 69

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. Not Acceptable : Can you please check out my website and let me know your thoughts (yes, I get asked this ALL THE TIME at conferences). But before this I built and sold two software companies. And smiled.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost.

IBM 40

IBM IBM Tool Resource 40

Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts and CES conference attendees, and offers an opportunity to see some of the hottest, early-stage, tech startups before CES begins. Robomart is building a fleet of fully autonomous, on-demand, self-driving, grocery stores. Meet the Startups. Altopa (Seattle, WA). ICI Vision (Tel Aviv, Israel).

Startup 70

Startup High Tech Product Design 70

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. It’s hard and awkward to do this because silence demands a response. you’ve at least gotten informed about the LA market for when you do ever want to invest?

Funding 189

Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Venture Capital 189

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Utility: Envoy Now. Best of REACH NeXT: Parlor.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. Authenticity - I asked Chamillionaire why he thinks he connects so much with people at tech conferences. He created demand. There are many analogies here for software development.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Email 356

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. He built & IPOd Demand Media. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT. Then, two years ago, I went to my first Bitcoin event and conference, and frankly�sorry, Dawn�that I had found my first love again. I also had worked earlier at Microcom, which was a big modem manufacturer in the day, building telecommunications software.

Startup 100

Startup IP CTO Coach Allegis 100

LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference.

Cornerstone OnDemand 40

Cornerstone OnDemand Product Artificial Inteligence Organization 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Richard Rosenblatt. Bambi Francisco. Rick Heitzmann.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

In no expert in Seattle but when I look around I see: enterprise software (Microsoft), the market leader in cloud services (Amazon AWS), games (Xbox), some of the most innovative retailers in the country (CostCo, Starbucks, REI) and what is left of Boeing (HQ moved to Chicago). Marketing Muscle. It’s awesome.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317