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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Google bought Motorola Mobility for $12B to get access to their 17,000 patents. Even IBM (the #1 in US Patents) sold over 1000 of its patents recently. See how to fund a company with IP Funding, as an alternative to VC funding. How 'IP Capitalists' are beating Venture Capitalists in Innovative Companies?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

“Decades ago, at the peak of Japanese growth as a technology competitor on the global stage, the US government sought to break up IBM. The reason is that if there is less M&A due to legal uncertainty, there is a reduced incentive for angels & VCs to fund those startups in the first place. — Balaji S. ”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” I like to see at least 10,000 active users, or a user base, page-views, or mobile downloads that double every three months. First of all, a definition.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. The company is privately held and has received no venture funding to date.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

These included the PC, mobile phone, the internet, and MRI imaging. I was lucky enough to be part of a key intrapreneurial effort at IBM, the IBM PC development, which I believe was only allowed to happen due to the internal political acumen of our leader, Don Estridge. Demonstrates a sense of purpose without risking all.

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LATechDigest

MAY 30, 2016

IBM Watson. Mobile App Hackathon (-6/4). MARCH CAPITAL Opens LA Shop with $240M Fund ( link ). **. THIS WEEK’S EVENTS: see full calendar. Tuesday May 31. Hack for LA. Future of Transportation. Wednesday June 1. Thursday June 2. QuePasa DTLA. LA Datatech Monthly MixR. Accelerating IoT. Friday June 3. Innovate Pasadena.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. This step may also lead to a disruptive innovation in the future.

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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. We''re heading into our Series B round of funding, and we''re growing quickly. We can help brands achieve, on average, conversions that are 10 times higher than the industry.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. [ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? Olloclip managed to fund and start the company based on crowdfunding, and is one of the most popular projects that has been funded through Kickstarter. I've been focused only on mobile for the last twelve years.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

IBM has shared ideas with us, EMC, Microsoft, and a whole raft of other major companies are working closely with us now. We now have seven companies, and have our own venture fund as well, and we'll be doing four or five for the next few years. On the customer side, we have companies like Samsung, GE, Kaiser Permanente, Accenture.

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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. We've got people around the world, in three states in the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” I like to see at least 10,000 active users, or a user base, page-views, or mobile downloads that double every three months. First of all, a definition.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. What is your mobile strategy? Then iterate and improve based on feedback.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. I’ve got guys getting funded at 23! If you’re not confident enough to get funded now, you’re never going to be funded.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful. landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? However, there are a few storm coulds out there that we need to be watching. What went wrong?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. I’m hoping that HTML5 + mobile will lead them down a more open path. I recently wrote a post about the open nature of Twitter and why I’m long on its future.

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