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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Recently IBM combined forces with DevPost to put out the call for developer/heroes to solve some of the world’s most dramatic and important problems with its worldwide hacker contest for good called Bluemixathon: Operation Rescue and Recovery. For more information about rules and criteria, see Bluemixathon Challenge on Devpost.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

IBM , and the Los Angeles Times. The effort is applying language analysis and language software from IBM to try to distinguish positive and negative tweets about films, actors, and actresses, to predict the possible winners of an Oscar.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a software for compliance and risk,” Lee said.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

UC Irvine is jumping onto the big data bandwagon, saying this week that it has launched a new, online course specifically aimed at helping individuals learn all about big data. UCI said the program will use such software as Hadoop, Teradata, Knime, Aster, IBM-Netiza, HP-Veritca, Statistica, R, Python and Crystal Ball.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

In some ways, it’s likely the kind of rejuvenation that John Doerr was hoping for when he approached Social + Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya about “acquiring” that upstart firm back in 2015. “LPs are not really happy about what’s going on,” says one investor with knowledge of the venture space.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. We spoke with Gary Bishop, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the company. It's nice chatting with you again about your company--you're here in Los Angeles, aren't you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.” For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Don’t waste your time and energy talking to angels and VCs about technology funding when you could be focused more productively on grants, private funds and future business partners.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Don’t waste your time and energy talking to angels and VCs about technology funding when you could be focused more productively on grants, private funds and future business partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

He also spearheaded a number of fundamental software breakthroughs, including creating the basic hardware / software architecture which resulted in the creation of the third-party personal computer (PC) software industry. Designed CD-ROM filing system and created Universal Software Bus.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We caught up with Steve earlier this week to learn more about the program. Four of the top fifteen engineering schools in the United States are in Los Angeles, but those student''s don''t really know about the area from a tech perspective. What''s the idea behind the program? I think schools here could do a better job. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

With my software background at IBM, I’m well aware that technical early adopters value more and more features, and are able to deal with complexity. The world needs more entrepreneurs to envision and create the needs we haven’t even thought about yet. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/15/2021.

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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. We sell directly to big enterprises, like IBM and Cisco.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. Gluecode, my first, I sold to IBM.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

It can take 18 months from initial concern about a critical employee to getting a replacement up to speed. How about senior managers no longer at speed? Of course, I’ll tell another harrowing story here. an old friend, Dick Tanaka, gets credit for the 18-month rule. A personal story illustrates the point too well.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. I (and TechEmpower ) have worked with IBM, HP, Xerox, etc. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I say “struggle to overcome&# because I care about young people entering our industry with a set of realistic expectations about what “normal&# is. Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

My partner, Craig Cummings, and I were fortunate to close our $20M fund in October and couldnt be more excited about identifying new portfolio companies and helping those entrepreneurs build their businesses. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Software Secretaries. Software coding was initially considered "woman's work," as it involved typing the commands onto punchcards, which was akin to taking dictation via a typewriter. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

What most excites you about the technology industry here today? In the last couple ofyears, we've seen more enterprise technology and software locally here, and software is starting to grow up. We're also excited about the areas around artificial intelligence for certain verticals. I think that is a big strength for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

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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. That''s what I get excited about. Carla Bourque: We do a lot of thinking about this. What is Smartify?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

With my IBM software product background, I could talk at length about competing with other players with big brands, but your problem may be a wealth of small competitors with no brand. I would like to give you my best answer to your question, without first having to ask you a dozen questions before I even understand the context.

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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. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

The honest truth is that I worked with Microsoft then from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the early days of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.” Enlist community of support.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) I've been a serial entrepreneur for about 20-odd years, and I didn't want to sit at a big company.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 29, 2020

million, according to a Ponemon Institute and IBM Security 2019 Cost of a Data Breach report 1. As network automation hardware and software continues to evolve and emerge, enterprises should research which best automate daily network processes. The average data breach costs $3.92

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). Tell us a bit about what you're hoping to do there?

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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. Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. Tony has a Ph.D.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. What companies are looking for, and what they care about, are material events. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. Jeff Curie: Bitvore is an intelligence gathering and analysis system.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We caught up with Quinton Alsbury , president and co-founder of the company, to learn more about what Roambi is doing for enterprises, and where it's going. For those not familiar with Roambi, can you tell us about the product? That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. How about $70? GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Dedicated to our Clients. NeoHire (www.neohire.comk).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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