SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. In three of the cases, the founder was finding that the software teams (1 in-house, 2 outsourced) were delivering relatively well in the short-run. They couldn't plan their business. My belief is that you shouldn't sign that contract.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2014

El Segundo-based iRise , which develops enterprise visualization software used by companies for developing their internal applications, said yesterday that it has started offering up its software to students at two local universities. iRise develops software which helps companies design corporate applications without software coding.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2018

San Diego-based "code school" Origin Code Academy said this morning that it has rolled out a new, online-only, free course on programming and the basics of writing code. According to the school, the new course teaches some of the fundamentals of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Lynda.com , the site which helps people learn software and other skills from online videos, has been recognized for its job creation, the firm said Friday, ranking number 1 in job creation in education by Inc. Lynda.com's online site offers up instructional courses on everything from software like Photoshop to Wordpress, and Excel to AutoCAD.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand, which provides employee development tools and online learning management, says it has integrated with Microsoft's new Viva software. Viva, Microsoft's new "employee experience" software, is aimed at connecting remote workforces with communications, learning, knowledge sharing, and other features.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Developing skills-based online courses and credentials is the easy part. The hard part is getting employers to pay attention.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation , the nonprofit arm of talent management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand , said this morning that i thas launched a new online learning and social networking site for nonprofits. cornerstone ondemand enterprise software talent management learning nonprofit organization development'

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Los Angeles-based software company QualityWorks said this week that it is offering up a free, bootcamp for people in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community, to learn about software testing.

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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 prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

His ideas to date hadn’t totally resonated and of course ideas matter, too. They built the software. Of course there is competition! Of course a show gave them an award! I met up with Sam in NYC last year to talk about “what he was up to.” He was already a line to me, not a dot. So I was doing my job. It was a love fest.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara is the primary backer of a developer of online training software for corporations, which announced a funding round Thursday. Mindflash , a Silicon Valley-based developer of online software for learning management and developing corporate training, said it raised $3.5M READ MORE>>.

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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. Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 Structural.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Of course the naysayers are out again. Of course not. Of course we brought in outside experts.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Alelo said its new cultural awareness training courses help the U.S. The new courses cover Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with language coverage of Modern Standard Arabic, Urdu, Pashtu and Dari. Alelo uses computer gaming technology and engines as a key part of its training and simulation software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Carpinteria-based online education site lynda.com has tied into a new program from LinkedIn , to highlight courses that users of both sites have completed through the online learning site. Lynda.com provides a huge library of online video courses on software, web design, photography, and many other topics. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced this morning that it has released a number of online training courses, to coincide with the release of Microsoft's Office 2013 and Office 365. The company, which publishes online, video training courses, said the releases bring it to more than 175 courses on Microsoft software.

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APRIL 17, 2013

El Segundo-based enterprise visualization software developer iRise is looking to its most loyal users to spread the word about the company''s software, which is used for prototyping and visualizing enterprise apps, by giving those users free, lifetime, personal access to the company''s software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2013

creativeLive competes against Lynda.com , the online video education site based in Goleta, which has grown to be one of the region's fastest growing companies through its online courses for learning creative software. The startup has locations in San Francisco and Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Correct your course quickly. And when you have Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early. Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Learn how to test and possibly use testing and load tools.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. Google was also a founding member of the Academy Software Foundation , an open source foundation that focuses specifically on tools for the film industry.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2013

The Santa Monica site, which is led by Jason Nazar, said it has launched ExpertCircle , an online platform which lets businesses find recommended products and vendors, based on endorsements, critiques, and reviews around everything from business insurance to productivity software.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2014

Lynda.com , the online video education site which offers up a large library of video tutorials in computer software, business skills, design, and other areas, is in a big expansion today, saying that it has started offering up its products in Southeast Asia. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 24, 2013

USC said the new degree will cover such courses as secure operating systems and applications, secure networking, digital forensics, cryptography, and key management. viterbi school engineering southern california degree security cybersecurity software' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). The carve-outs were people who got executive MBAs (e.g.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer. This may push you in that direction.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

According to the company, video2brain provides German-, French-, Spanish- and English-language courses covering many of the same categories as lynda.com. The acquisition is the first for lynda.com, which recently crossed the $100M in annual revenues mark, based on its online video instruction videos for a wide range of software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

He’s had a ton of recent successes in enterprise software investments but also has a history in doing consumer deals. Of course Kleiner has had a difficult couple of years. I guess it was time for Matt to get and chart a course at a smaller firm where he could build Phase 2 of his career and I respect that. Conclusions?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. .” But not many others.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Throughout the course of last year I never had more than $8,000 in my account. . People seldom understand that when enterprise customers choose your software it isn’t just a purchase order. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

And since I was 13 years old I have been accustomed to the debate about the limitations of technology or rather the downsides of being overly obsessed with gadgets, devices, software or applications. Technology is of course a dual-edge sword but the media discussions of how it affects human interactions all too often focuses on the downsides.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

It’s good advice; the theory being that entrepreneurs can discover the flaws in their business models sooner, make course corrections and move in a more favorable direction. In my case as a young software entrepreneur, I had a different approach: Fail Locally, one customer at a time. I became an entrepreneur by default.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2011

For our Insights and Opinions section today, Jeff Solomon , co-founder of Los Angeles leads software firm Leads360 , explores in Come On, Man! Of course that backfired. Has starting a business without any kind of business model become trendy again? And what does that mean? What Is Your Business?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pasadena-based OpenX Technologies , the developer of Internet ad serving technology, announced this morning that it has acquired LiftDNA , a provider of yield optimization software for online publishers. LIftDNA's software works with ad servers to optimize the ads displayed from ad networks. READ MORE>>.

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OpenX Pasadena Course Acquisition 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Lynda.com said its new, free app allows its members to access its entire library of video courses, letting users access more than 110,000 videos across the 2,400 courses available through the site. Lynda.com offers up a library of video-based training on everything from design software, to business skills, to photography and graphics.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

The company explained that its program allows local students to take courses and learn in-demand skills, in exchange for 15 percent of a students' post-graduation salary over four years. The company--which also runs the program elsewhere in the nation--offers up a "engineering immersion" and other similar courses to students.

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