Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community.    What are you most looking forward to in the technology world in 2021? We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Analytics and data in 2020 have become household words.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

There''s a gap between the robust, growing technology startups in Los Angeles and the many students graduating from local universities, according to Steven Dietz , who is a venture capitalist at LA''s Upfront Ventures. Steven Dietz: There is very little connection between the schools here and the technology community in the LA area.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. None tanked.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In the 1980s, high-tech companies stored information about their customers on their sophisticated and high-cost computer equipment. For us, the context is building technology solutions that meet business objectives for our clients. As a result, developer efficiency may be slightly improved with a NoSQL platform.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

For all the hype around the blockchain  the computer algorithms behind the popular Bitcoin cryptocurrency  there are some real, solid promise behind the technology. That's designing games on platforms that are fairly nascent now, like the iPhone was in 2008. It was still under debate. Our pitch to them was very straightforward.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion dollars of regional GDP. Yes, Google won.

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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. You got it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. If you look at anything that's evolved in consumer technology, it always starts pretty basic.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With the Republican National Convention behind us and the Democratic convention in full swing, it seems like a good moment to ask how a Donald Trump presidency or a Hillary Clinton presidency might affect the prospects for high-tech entrepreneurship and business growth in the United States. The Democratic platform says that the U.S.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're creating a platform that highlights musicians, venues, and local fans. I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. What is Loudvine? Vic Caretti: It's pretty simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Successful people don’t wait for their kids to teach them about new technologies, or wait to be the last one on the block to try new things. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. People love to share what they know.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. We provided the technology, but partnered with other websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Successful people don’t wait for their kids to teach them about new technologies, or wait to be the last one on the block to try new things. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. People love to share what they know.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Startup Social Network 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Successful people don’t wait for their kids to teach them about new technologies, or wait to be the last one on the block to try new things. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. People love to share what they know.

Social Media 104

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 104

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). or “ what do you think about the effects of the economy on high-tech? ”.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That’s about all I can tell you about the program, but I spent six months in tech school where I received classroom training in electrical theory and hands-on field training and learned two different system platforms we used at the time. And I realized that technology was bringing us closer. All because of tech.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). or “ what do you think about the effects of the economy on high-tech? ”.

LAMP 40

LAMP PHP Java CTO Hire 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

The basic tools are the platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Successful people don’t wait for their kids to teach them about new technologies, or wait to be the last one on the block to try new things. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech. People love to share what they know.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 88

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). or “ what do you think about the effects of the economy on high-tech? ”.

PHP 40

PHP LAMP Java CTO Hire 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Checkout this amazing lineup of keynotes, panels, and talks during this high-level full day event. Meanwhile, are the augmented reality apps too high-tech to make it into the mainstream? Who are the agents for the change? The advertiser?

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