socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2012

Google Drive is a cloud-service for files that offers 5GB of space to use however you wish right out of the gate for free. This is actually great for those that purchased extra space for the Picasa Web Albums prior to Google+ launching. Installing the Google Drive desktop app is very simple, like most installations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! If you add the next generation of natural language processing (NLP), you will be able to ask Google Voice Search or Apple Siri the questions right through your smart phone. A personal assistant must be highly organized and detail-oriented.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2018

You’d be hard-pressed to find a workplace today where using technology isn’t an integral part of the job, whether it’s an AI-powered recruiting tool, special coding software for app development, or even just Google Sheets that help workers keep track of budgets.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” These are the lifeblood of your sales organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? (HP Style) are dead. The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. just to name a few!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Google has just allowed each of their “ Inbox by Gmail ” users to invite three of their friends and of course everyone is wondering what’s new with the technology giant. Quite simply, it just seems like a new format of organizing your gmail. Yes, also available on both Google Play and the iOS store).

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Personal care is exactly that — personal and individualized — and therefore it’s been tricky for personal care specialists to use scheduling tools to organize it. Roughly half used some software on premises or in the cloud, but none of it did the trick both for the salons or their customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Given customers & sales are the lifeblood of any organization you’d imagine everybody would respect their customers. I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. Think of this as the Google Apps approach to business. You’d be very wrong. Starting with a positive.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average. Amazon Employee Warns Internal Groups They’re Being Monitored For Labor Organizing – Motherboard.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Santa Barbara-based introNetworks, a developer of social networking software for connecting trade show attendees and organizations, has released an update to the firm's software. introNetworks' software uses user profiles and information to visually connect users with one another. IntroNetworks is backed by Adobe.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, 10 years after the software was first released, the kanban-based system is getting a major overhaul. The software now offers Timeline, Table, Dashboard, and Calendar views. You'll be able to link cards to external resources such as YouTube videos, Dropbox and Google Drive files as well as Stripe and Salesforce records.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 16, 2009

And I'm happy that they now have the concept of Saved Profiles and that they provide the ability to organize your saved profiles. This is how Google does things. Here's the Google Reader "folders" but really they are tags as you can assign them to many different folders. Well I should be a little more exact.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. Bloomberg reported this week that PolitiFact, the Associated Press, and the other outside organizations Facebook has enlisted to fact check articles are.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. This seems very different from your background on software, how did you get into this? What is Ulevate?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. The teams of volunteer individuals and organizations are not just in for hype.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s established itself as a leading source of organic sales referrals and we find creative ways for brands to help keep it that way while seeing incredible results as far as significantly increased site visits, sales and brand awareness.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Damir Davidovic: What's driving that growth, is we have established a standard in the public sector for agencies and organizations using our system. Damir Davidovic: That's a good question.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. It's very different than at large organizations.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Norton recommended that users think before sending online donations to organizations they have not heard of, and also to be careful about opening emails about the disaster, as they might carry malware or security risks.

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Symantec Email Startup Software Review 174

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In addition, in this new digital first world, nearly every type of purchase from what's for lunch, to where's the nearest ATM, starts with a 'near me' search on Google, Yelp, or one of the many other discovery networks.

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Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Wes Nichols: We were introduced to Elevation and Roger McNamee, who runs Elevation, through senior executives at Google who we have had a partnership with.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Prior to joining Science, Monahan was co-founder and CEO AlphaBoost, a Facebook advertising reporting software builder. He also co-founded The Comotion Group, which was acquired by Sharethrough and was previously advisor to Wildfire, which Google acquired for $350M.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. It's very different than at large organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). How did you get into VC? (9:30

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Once you get past Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and maybe Yelp and Bing, you've counted for 90 percent of all interaction. If you ask Siri for where to get skinny legs jeans, or ask Google Maps for where to get a vegan burrito, they try to give you the best recommendation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. Excite, MSN and eventually Google. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics. &#.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This defect was estimated to have affected up to two-thirds of internet servers , allowing cyber criminals to go around transport security layer (TLS) protections and grabbing confidential information found in computers or servers that had OpenSSL-powered software. Another strength of the nogotofail tool is the fact that it is open source.

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Tool Networking Google Web 85

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

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