Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 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 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The startup is led by two co-CEOs, Izhak Musli and Terri Ross. The company said its tools provide sales and financial training, tools to understand financial benchmarks, and education around understanding key data analytics.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The Annual TechZulu Startup Forecast is one of our most anticipated events. In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Get yourself up to speed by reading through JATI, Inc.’s

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. It allows us to start peeling the onion. How did you start the business?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. Beast Mode is taking on a new meaning in the startup world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I really want to start my journeys only with people with whom I want to work closely with for the next 5-7 years or more. If I were an entrepreneur in that space I think I would seek them out as a starting point because their interest seems authentic. Whenever somebody has a car startup I send it straight his way.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

if you listen you’ll pick up much more than my quick notes below). We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. We talked about what startup CEOs should do in these situations and how to think about these renegotiations. A seed company hasn’t ramped up its cost base.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Kangarootime , a startup developing cloud-based software for childcare centers, has raised a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding came from Skyview Ventures LLC, Mucker Capital, and the Tech Coast Angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. But let me start with some data. They now have massive efforts to sign up local merchants and are sending direct mail (yes, erm, physical mail isn’t deal either!) Higher education. Home alarms.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. We talked with him on why he decided to head up this startup, and what 15desks is all about. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Getting face time with VCs or people of influence is an ongoing challenge for startup founders, and it may take layers of introductions to get to the right person. Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. As the President of Start Co.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Thus, as an advisor to many startups, without being negative, I often spend hours with them brainstorming on all the possible barriers that may slow adoption rates, and how to plan or modify the business model to work around these obstacles. Selling products to education organizations, or the government, is never simple.

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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. We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Founded in 2007.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of social relationship management software, reported yesterday that it has tapped a Salesforce.com veteran to head up its content and product marketing strategy. Nimble said that Stone also served at Assistly, in addition to having over 20 years of experience at startups and large companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

Customer service starts within a company. We all know about Zappos customer culture and their willingness to stay on a call with a customer for up to 10 hours. They are genuinely creating these podcasts to educate and inspire people who love building products as much as they do. I signed up for both.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

The system also does the sometime annoying job of tracking down parties, and follows up automatically via email, and finds people where they are. And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? That's a good thing for us, because of the legal issues--it's been a lot of education. and the E.U.,

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Create a list It sounds obvious but the starting point for any fund-raising planning is to create a list of prospects. I know this is CRM 101 but I assure you most startups (and VCs) don’t do this or don’t do it well. If you’re a SaaS company and the firm is a “consumer” firm (or vice versa) then don’t waste your time.

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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. We need to start encouraging it in our youth. AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%. When I started my first company at 31 year’s old I had to raise at least $5 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Too many startup execs place too much emphasis on the big stage launch. I’ve heard many startup CEO’s (and VCs!) It started socially. Robert’s article is worth reading.

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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.

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