Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. A personal story illustrates the point too well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

On the other hand, stealth mode does make sense for large companies, like Apple and IBM, who will likely be sued for pre-announcing a future product, since other companies have used this ploy in the past to freeze the market and lock out new competitors.

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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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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. Most people will tell you that there are two kinds of eventual buyers for your business: financial and strategic.

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socalTECH

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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

For all the benefits it has brought society over the past three decades—faster and easier communication, instant knowledge access, a seemingly inexhaustible marketplace of goods and services—the Web has also morphed into an “engine of inequity and division,” according to its inventor , Tim Berners-Lee (pictured above).

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

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

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

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

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She bought our first computer – an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive – in order to do her books electronically. The thought that I keep returning to in my head is that the future is likely to be much better for female entrepreneurs than that past has been. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Carla Bourque: Smartify has been based in Pasadena for the past three and a half years. Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. What is Smartify?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Zynga have been the smashing success it has become if it weren’t perfectly timed to ride on the back of Facebook’s growth?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Internet of things has been THE hot topic for the past couple of years and that trend continues into 2016 and beyond. Cisco, IBM and others are launching a new line of routers that are equipped to handle small amounts of data storage and processing on top of providing the internet connection to the IoT network.

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

IBM with OS2, different Linux operating systems, and of course Mac OS. But the main reason why everyone wanted Windows was software. Everyone needed software because everything was implemented as software. Everyone needed software because everything was implemented as software. A market Check Mate.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Jennifer: I am a corporate attorney who has spent that past 13 years working with entrepreneurs, venture firms, private equity firms, and high-growth, privately held companies to make acquisitions, grow their businesses and complete successful exits. What’s the most exciting thing that has happened in Cleveland in the past year?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. Email readers continue here.]

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have completely revolutionized how consumers interact with the online world in the past few years. That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. That's obviously a subscription cost as well, with no software to deploy.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

In fact, I would say that over the past few years, it has become harder to produce or find events that will attract a good audience. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. Now, you can give Amazon a credit card and have any size system you need in minutes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. He convinced me that the storage infrastructure was stable, reliable & secure.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. I choose appendix.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Over the past few years the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created a flood of new gTLDs covering a wide variety of concepts, locations and products. The trademark verification itself is performed by Deloitte and the data is managed by IBM , who are partnered with the TMCH to provide mark vetting services.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Add in the concepts of risk management, disaster planning, and continuity that used to be classed under the “general fund” and are now audible expenses, and there has been an exponential cost increase to operating a city in the past two decades. These are some of the smartest of the smart cities so far. Glasgow, Scotland.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

One group I talked to in the past and really liked was Sally Duby over at PhoneWorks. This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then. In NorCal there are zillions of people.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. Every one of these reasons has haunted me at one time or another over the past 10 years. have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. " over the past few months. call to arms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Evidence over the past year would suggest otherwise. He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle. Over the past 15 years Seattle has built one of the most interesting technology companies in the world.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

And, I dont like to copy and paste. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Otherwise, Ive not seen much. * Posted byTony Karrer at 8:47 AM 4comments: Famous Quotations said.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

But it’s now looking to be a banner year for significant advances in social software standards and technologies, many of them to address well-known shortcomings and inconveniences in today’s Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List What are the challenges with the social Web today?

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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. Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento.

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Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. . ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. One guy was the creator of Microsoft Excel and the other created the first network for IBM. (No,

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