TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While Google just launched its LA hub, Microsoft has operated a cloud region in Southern California for a while, and started wooing Hollywood last year at the National Association of Broadcasters conference, according to Tad Brockway, a general manager for Azure’s storage and media business. .

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. However, when survival becomes an immediate goal, products that help companies weather near-term economic storms become especially attractive. Watson, IBM Founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. In a very real sense, we funded him, and he superseded even IBM. Yet many business owners and leaders don’t seem to understand the basic principles of building business relationships and connections, or don’t know where to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

For those of you who want to get in on the ground floor of a new venture, but haven’t yet worked up the nerve to start your own, begin with a job at a startup. Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. Start networking.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. There''s not a daily intersection between the lives of students, and the lives of folks who are starting technology companies. That''s also true of UCLA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. That means you have to stand out above the crowd, and aggressively pursue those candidates that can help you breed even more presence and power in the marketplace. If you want to survive. Survival means growth and scaling.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

So with Lee’s help, he set out to build one. ” There are other tools out there, IBM has OpenPages and ThomsonReuters developed a tool for audit and risk and compliance , but these software services pre-dated Sarbanes-Oxley, and were not made with a modern organization in mind, according to Lee and Kim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. They can make your startup an inspiring place to work, and help your team see their role in achieving something substantial and good, as well as fun. Don’t wait for the descending darkness before you start.

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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. ” Nortman sees the Warren announcement as an attempt to start a dialogue between government regulators and big technology companies. ” .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. This can help you get in the door when you are ready, and asking questions early will give you insights on investor priorities. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. This can help you get in the door when you are ready, and asking questions early will give you insights on investor priorities. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2021

All too often I hear the refrain that big existing players, like Microsoft or IBM, are too fat and slow to be real competitors. Every startup should start with a set of values that would fit the definition of a good cause. Why have other smart people failed on a similar idea? What if we could become a cause and not worry about profit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. That means you have to stand out above the crowd, and aggressively pursue those candidates that can help you breed even more presence and power in the marketplace. If you want to survive. Survival means growth and scaling.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

In a bid to try to make it easier for consumers to figure that out, Enervee (www.enervee.com) recently rolled out a new tool to provide an "Enervee Score" to help rate products on their energy efficiency and cost--and is now trying to get manufacturers, retailers, and others to adopt its tool. Where did the idea come from?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Meet some of the amazing organizations that partner with the Startup of the Year program, and could be a valuable resource for you to help build your business. Memphis, TN).

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. I then spent a few years at IBM as their Chief Strategy Officer in their identity management area. Why did you start in that market? That was a very successful exit for everyone involved.

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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. What's the background on the company, and how did you start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. They can make your startup an inspiring place to work, and help your team see their role in achieving something substantial and good, as well as fun. Don’t wait for the descending darkness before you start.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2016

In 1995, I sat on my couch with an IBM Thinkpad 720C, Coreldraw, Microsoft Word and created Make It Work. I wrote a one page business plan and create this logo: My business idea was simple, I wanted to help people “make it work” in their business using technology and building operational software solutions.

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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. He ends by looking at how this might help startups in the room. Tony has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and taught computer science for 11 years.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Go Go Mongo, steps into that realm and has helped children learn about healthy eating. In talking with Ahmed he mentioned that the core idea had originated from his desire to help teach his younger family members learn the names of different foods in English. Prior to starting Go Go Mongo, Ahmed worked as a consultant for IBM.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

We are the only, data-driven incentive platform that helps marketers optimize their audience participation across the channel. We can help brands achieve, on average, conversions that are 10 times higher than the industry. As you might imagine, I started as a brand manager in the consumer product goods market. What is Smartify?

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Increased network reliability, proactive infrastructure monitoring, and comprehensive technical support help maximize network uptime, which can save companies from expensive outages and reduced productivity. million, or $150 per record lost, according to a Ponemon Institute and IBM Security 2019 Cost of a Data Breach report.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Voters did approve full legalization of marijuana, which might come in handy to help the deep-blue state through the Trump years. Bagger is helping run the transition. The team leader told Reuters that clinical trials could start in 2018. Golden State voters rejected Prop. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2018

I’m not saying success is rare, but the list of famous entrepreneurs who started their career in a big company is small. I made the jump myself from IBM several years ago, and now have a satisfying startup advising small businesses and mentoring entrepreneurs. Have a demonstrated aptitude for managing money and budgets.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Or are you starting from scratch? I (and TechEmpower ) have worked with IBM, HP, Xerox, etc. You should be getting an estimate for the work effort before you get started. Do they help with transition to in-house or other developers? Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. It’s a jungle out there. That’s the good news and the bad news.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. That means you have to stand out above the crowd, and aggressively pursue those candidates that can help you breed even more presence and power in the marketplace. If you want to survive. Survival means growth and scaling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. They help make rational decisions.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

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. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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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. Jon Ferrara: When Nimble started, there was no Office 365. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business. Solve one problem really well. Realistically frame the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. That means you have to stand out above the crowd, and aggressively pursue those candidates that can help you breed even more presence and power in the marketplace. If you want to survive. Survival means growth and scaling.

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