SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I will do my best to keep this up to date. Los Angeles Startup Community Posts/Articles Here are some interesting articles and posts on the ecosystem around startups in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I will do my best to keep this up to date. Los Angeles Startup Community Posts/Articles Here are some interesting articles and posts on the ecosystem around startups in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Today's interview is with Jon Ferrara of Nimble (www.nimble.com), the maker of contact management software-as-a-service. How does customer service tie into all of this? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We only want software revenue.” We like software.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

TechZulu is happy to announce that we will be bringing you all the action live from the GLAZED Conference Monday, September 30th starting at 9AM. The post GLAZED | Wearable Tech Conference [Live] appeared first on TechZulu. Tamer Hassanein, Partner, Rising Tide Fund. Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. It is to out friend.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? Marten began his story by explaining that MySQL was originally founded as a research project and how it was a nascent startup for nearly a decade before he joined the team. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. For myself, I'm largely focused on investments in enterprise software, primarily in the areas of application software and intelligence.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice. With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. I have a new startup in the space that I think would interest you.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I rarely attend startup pitch competitions anymore. But a startup contest held Tuesday at a machine learning conference in Cambridge, MA, put a twist on the typical scenario: the startups were judged by an artificial intelligence software program, instead of a panel of investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. If three of us go to the first meeting there’s no reason to have a follow up meeting 6 weeks later!) What do I do now? That wasn’t you. I remember.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I made every textbook mistake at my first startup, which is why I believe I was much more effective at my second one. The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Here's Alon Goren , founder of 805 Startups and the Crypto Invest Summit. We'd never grow as people and as a community if we never try new things, get dirty, screw up and be uncomfortable every now and then. But my thing has always been supporting startups and entrepreneurs at an early stage. You'll hear about it soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Google raised the curtain with a splashy announcement that they’d be setting up their fifth cloud region in the U.S. Now Microsoft has responded with a play of its own, partnering with the provider of a suite of hosted graphic design and animation software tools called Nimble Collective. in Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

Sears, the nation’s first “everything store,” is teetering toward bankruptcy after years of stagnation as industry leaders prepare to gather in New York at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Start – It’s The Only Way You Will Know. Mark reinforced this message by telling the students, “I didn’t start young enough. I started at 31. The reality is, most startups do not work.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

WeWork , the co-working space operator which has a significant presence across Southern California, with nineteen locations in the Los Angeles area plus a location in San Diego, has acquired Teem , a software startup backed by active LA venture investor Greycroft Ventures. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

It’s six months down the road and time to check in on startup that had high hopes when the year began. Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. The Harvard Business Review recommends two low-risk applications of blockchain technology that startups can try. Blockchain Technology.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

It doesn’t matter if you start a company in a coworking space, a dorm room or on your couch, the struggle to build a tech business in this day and age is real. This year at CES 2018 at Eureka Park over 800 startups from around the world will descend on Las Vegas and meet individuals to help boost their business. Meet the Startups.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It shows a lack of interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Obvious Ventures , the venture investment firm co-founded by Twitter founder Ev Williams and James Joaquin of When.com/Ofoto/Xoom, is announcing a $50,000 investment in one of 50 startups being featured at a conference in Hollywood next week.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Therese Tucker: Ours customer today are typically companies with $50M and up in revenues. That's super helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about top-down versus bottom-up thinking. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? See you in Vegas!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2012

A conference being held this week by the OpenStack cloud software group has surfaced what looks to be a surge in cloud-based companies in Southern California, including a number of startups. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. A 50 car line stacked up the street from the conference entrance filled with women idling, applying mascara, brushing their hair, and finishing early morning conference calls. So when I heard about Women 2.0 likely relate to.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Introducing Bitcoinference | A Decentralized Conference , hosted by illustrious startup accelerator, 500 Startups. Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. Getting Things Started.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

Here are three Southern California startups who thrived despite--or maybe even because of--downturns. Just two years later, in 2010, the company had a successful IPO. The company was eventually acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion. >. GoToMyPC was then acquired by Citrix for $225M in 2003.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Therese Tucker: Our customer today are typically companies with $50M and up in revenues. Who are you customers today?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2015

Media mogul John Battelle, famous for spinning up new media concepts into standards, has been quietly perfecting a new conference model he is branding NewCo , a “festival of innovation.” NewCo is a new conference model that is experiential, engaging and interactive. What if we could turn conferences inside out?”.

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