Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I would love to see Tara follow up with blog posts on: why she believes this is the case & what we can do about it. She bought our first computer – an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive – in order to do her books electronically. We need to start encouraging it in our youth. ” [it's short, you should read it].

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Educate – Your primary role on stage is to educate the audience. You can’t show up with your monotone voice and have a deeply intellectual discussion like you might over brandy and cigars. It spices things up and makes for great entertainment. Follow up ! So it’s fresh on my mind. I prefer 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. I then really quickly race through looking for some minimum qualifications such as companies for which they worked, education, grades, etc. This post isn’t going to be popular.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Solve one problem really well. Limited goals and priorities. Keep your value chain consistent.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster. For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. I started my career in Europe, and spend my first decade working out of there. What''s the next big thing for you?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 10, 2013

I select the content and mostly it’s educational. Just the other day he opened a folder, found Netflix and started a movie. This morning, we were watching our AppleTV and he said “no daddy, up, right, right, right, ya, that one.” ” I never taught him up, down, right or left prior.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Remember when you were a startup? Don’t be the next Xerox who totally missed the personal computer market, even though they had the technology and the processes well before Apple, IBM, and others. This were done in a complementary fashion to provide support and education, and not undermine sales.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. And so that’s what Stanford did, so it was set up in that model. I wasn’t the director then in ’86.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The myth that arose to explain why IBM selected Microsoft’s Operating System over Digital Research’s market leading software is that Mr. Kildall opted for a joy ride in his private plane the day the IBM executives visited his offices. In reality, Gary Kildall was present when IBM came knocking during July of 1980.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

And today, more than 2,000 colleges and universities offer entrepreneurship courses – up from the just 70 schools that Boomers and Gen-X had to choose from in 1970. More and more, they choose to intern at a dynamic small company or startup. Startup companies foster a creative spirit. Experience vs. Escape. Creativity vs. Chores.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2011

These days we rarely find startups or mobile applications being built to focus on the progression of a children abilities for learning and their growth of a wider knowledge based from a younger age. Loaded with the idea, Ahmed headed over to Startup Weekend Bay Area in April 2010 and pitched to the crowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Solve one problem really well. Limited goals and priorities. Keep your value chain consistent.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Dave Terry , who co-founded Chrome River with Alan Rich, to learn more about how the company has build one of the fastest growing enterprise software makers in the area, why the company raised such a big round, and why the company is seeing a big opportunity in its market.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? .

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

a Qualcomm-backed startup founded in 2009 to develop computer systems and software based on algorithms that emulate the “spiking neuron” processes of the human brain. He also was co-founder of 4Wave, a Virginia-based startup specializing in semiconductor equipment. After joining Brain Corp. Before joining Brain Corp.,

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LATechDigest

MAY 30, 2016

IBM Watson. Students & Educators — Win $25k in THE MAYOR’S CUP ( link ). Thnx for sharing ur experience w/us @acrowder33 @VNTANAlive @CrossCampusLA @InnovatPasadena #technology #startup pic.twitter.com/W3j07hqzNt. STARTUP NEXT Presented Demo Day at Cross Campus. HACK FOR LA Met Up to Address Homelessness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Focus means starting with solving a specific problem, rather than a generic list. The more precise you can be in your definition of the target demographics (location, age, income, education), the more successful you will be. Now, of course, they all do much more, but those things came later. Limit solution scope and features.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

With a clear sense of the skills you have versus the skills needed, any organization can start to take action to shorten the gap. Once again, this starts with understanding the business. For training, consider partnering with outside organizations, such as SANS, CERT, or NICCS, or other online educational resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire powers voice and text messaging applications that enable businesses, government agencies and grassroots organizations to instantly and affordably communicate with key audiences.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2018

We have special prices for those at startups and non-profit or government organizations—so ask us about those as. There are only a few tickets left—so request your invitation today to join fellow exemplary executives, innovators, investors, technologists, and entrepreneurs. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2018

Year after year, Xconomy has gathered exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists to our most prestigious event— The Napa Summit. This year is no different. Come join us in the heart of wine country on June 14 and 15 to listen to visionary speakers and connect with fellow innovators.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

This fall, we are convening exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists for an in-depth exploration of the innovation ecosystem and its impact on the future. Come join us at our newest interactive conference, XCON: The Xconomy Conference on Technology and Transformation.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. You’re not the only one.

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