Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Filed by California inventor Richard Ditzik in 2011, the lawsuit asserts that Apple’s iPhone 4 infringes on Ditzik’s patent 7,103,380, “Wireless handset communications system” The patent, filed in 1997, claims in part a handset device that sends email and communicates with multiple networks at varying power levels.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Shackleton Advisors announced today that it has acquired SafeHarbor Technology , a Seattle-based provider of software for managing inbound telephone, email, and chat requests. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Every website, email, SMS text, mouse click, download and online purchase generates data, a lot of data. Moderators: Kevin DeBré- Partner, Stubbs Alderton and Markiles, LLP; Tom Deutsch- Program Director, IBM Software Group. Saturday, November 17, 2012 -- Big Data, Big Opportunities: Predicting the Future One Byte at a Time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. How many people do you know who have a thousand emails in their inbox, or just a few awaiting follow-up for over a week from people who matter? Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Professional relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Thus, ever after years as an executive in IBM and other companies, I’m still looking for the magic. As well, you must continuously communicate through multiple channels, such as walking-the-talk, email, and town hall meetings. Keep listening and adjusting based on feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

For example, Google was already a big company when Paul Buchheit was unhappy with the capabilities of external email for internal communications at Google. He knew well IBM executive sensitivity to open architecture, third-party suppliers, and micro technology, and used it to leverage funding.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Either you get multiple email addresses tied to the same URL or vice-versa.) Complete this quick form or email sales@zodiac805.com. I began my career at IBM and over the past 20 years have built several companies from the “third bedroom” that all have one thing in common: “mind blowing customer service!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties. The automation we provide is unique.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. It''s unique in that we can integrate that into CRM systems, email systems, point-of-sale. What''s your background, and how did you get into this?

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 14, 2013

If you are a manufacturer of great products for kids or families, email me: eric at zodiac805 dot com. I began my career at IBM and over the past 20 years have built several companies from the “third bedroom” that all have one thing in common: “mind blowing customer service! I will respond to you and tell you more!

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. A personal story illustrates the point too well.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. They used Gmail and Gsuite for email and calendar. As business onboard to the cloud for email, they'll eventually move there for servers. We're in the adoption phase.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Email readers, continue here.]

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2018

Request your invitation today to connect with top leaders by visiting our event site or emailing napa18@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company affiliation, and link to your bio. The Napa Summit is by invitation-only, and attendance is limited to under 100 guests. Our Napa Summit: The Xconomy Retreat on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Tip : It is always a good idea to email the other participants in advance with topics of discussion and alert the moderator if you’re worried about the direction it might take. This is the moderator’s job but it doesn’t hurt to ask (read: remind) them before hand if there will be audience Q&A at the end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. How many people do you know who have a thousand emails in their inbox, or just a few awaiting follow-up for over a week from people who matter? Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Professional relationships.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. I (and TechEmpower ) have worked with IBM, HP, Xerox, etc. I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Ahmed even received an email from a grateful parent that not only was the game cool but his daughter loved it and now wants to eat cauilflowuer. Prior to starting Go Go Mongo, Ahmed worked as a consultant for IBM. Though the apps main focus and core reasoning for being built was to help teach ESL. Try out the game for yourself.

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Mobile Startup IBM IBM 89

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

He's also led significant technology projects for a very impressive list of companies including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, HP, Sun, and the list goes on. Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. Tony has a Ph.D.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2017

Request your invitation today to connect with top leaders by visiting our event site or emailing napa17@xconomy.com with your name, job title, company affiliation, and link to your bio. The Napa Summit is by invitation-only, and attendance is limited to under 100 guests. Our Napa Summit: The Xconomy Retreat on.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. They all were very different companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else. The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc. Amazon changed our industry. This is mind boggling. That little online book company.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. in Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. How many people do you know who have a thousand emails in their inbox, or just a few awaiting follow-up for over a week from people who matter? Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Professional relationships.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 95

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Below is my email to Jim and Kevin, following my debriefing with the VoIP expert, who requested to remain anonymous. > -jeff.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

For my whole career, I've been in the technology business, working for IBM clone companies, storage companies, and then add on products for PDAs, and then working on early smartphones. Patrick O'Neill: I have had lots of people email me to tell me they'd seen olloclip, and were interested in doing their own project on Kickstarter.

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Patents Ideas Design Startup 191

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

For as long as I can remember, computer users have been complaining about the array of names and passwords required to get work done – a different unique user identification name and password are required to start the computer, email, social networks, banking, read online news, connect to the office, or check your phone bill.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] You may be a most successful direct competitor, one that the buyer’s sales people have observed jealously and nervously, sometimes even jumping over to your company as a result. At the same time, the buyer-candidate realized that we had become its largest reseller.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

Email readers continue here.] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion.

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Training Sales Course IBM 136

Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

IBM with OS2, different Linux operating systems, and of course Mac OS. Every game, productivity tool, utility, chat, email, etc. You can now do everything online, you can chat, check your email, create documents or spreadsheets, work on your photos, play tons of games and everything in between.

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Web 2.0 Google Doc Software 74

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. Not hard-core, just the stuff you’d do if you were in jr.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Once we located a company that we suspected was using BuddyHelp for commercial purposes, we then sent emails to any senior executive we could identify (using the techniques described in Infiltrating Big Dumb Companies ), hoping to eventually contact someone in the customer support department. Such unscrupulous users will never pay.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

If you get to know me and I hand over my email address, don’t add me to a mailing list and spam me the next three days. I began my career at IBM and over the past 20 years have built several companies from the “third bedroom” that all have one thing in common: “mind blowing customer service!”

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InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

This is the "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" approach to investing. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. I promise I will never tweet about double rainbows or that killer burrito I just ate. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

We decided to shake things up and take a risk at the biggest data management summit, attended by multi-billion dollar corporations, including IBM, Oracle and Informatica. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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