socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market. My focus is on innovative technology, connecting brands to their audience, whether they may be. What is Smartify?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. With a focus on impact investing, their efforts to drive social change are based on three key pillars: revolutionizing philanthropy, unleashing entrepreneurs and igniting civic engagement. Watch our video series at SXSW 2018 with The Case Foundation.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. We've seen some notable successes.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. However, they had a lack of technology vendors in the cloud.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. I am also an experienced entrepreneur who has founded two other companies. Before starting the company, I held engineering roles at Google and Meetup.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? 3) Why the hell are you at it again?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Most of the entrepreneurs I advise today are ready to declare success when they get that first surge of traction with a real customer. Based on my software career with IBM and several startups, I experienced the challenges and failures of scaling a software project to a business many times.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? tilofy location data science computer bigdata parsing filtering interview startup entrepreneur southern california' READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? Company : FindTheBest.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

I've been a serial entrepreneur for about 20-odd years, and I didn't want to sit at a big company. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data. IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. It's Me, Not You.

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What do entrepreneurs do when they finally establish their startup? It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. The success of the event earned it partners of the highest caliber, including IBM, Microsoft, and PWC.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. It was all over, geographically, and we did not have a strong community of entrepreneurs. I think that has changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

IBM invented this, but most others have it now also. Tags: entrepreneur startup single sign-on business. These are essentially an automated and secure version of the post-it notes, and include names like KeePass and Mitto. My laptop has a built-in fingerprint sensor that can be easily set up for a specific password when “swiped.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

That’s about 25 words which I’m certain doesn’t paint much of a picture to the entrepreneurs I know. I happened to attend a seminar this week for local business people featuring this subject, which featured speakers from IBM, Microsoft, and SalesForce.com. Tags: entrepreneurs startups cloud computing business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. This should not deter you. This doesn’t make sense.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” You see – running a SaaS platform for customers like you is the ONLY thing our team does.

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