socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Procore said its efforts will include providing Procore's software, implementation, and support free of charge to nonprofit and educational organizations; and having Procore's employees spend one percent of their annual working hours participating in volunteer opportunities that positively impact the communities where employees live and work.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2013

The hackathon, which is being sponsored by cat food brand Purina Friskies, said it is challenging hackers to come up with their best iPad game for cats, with prize of $15,000 for first prize, $3,000 for second prize, and $2,000 for third prize. The hackathon runs on the weekend of March 23rd to 24th at Amplify, according to the organizers.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2020

As it looks to continue along its path of developing clinically validated digital therapeutics for consumer and clinical mental health and wellness, Headspace has bulked up its executive team with the addition of longtime Intuit executive, CeCe Morken.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2015

Carlsbad-based cloud software developer MaintenanceNet is now officially part of Cisco, Cisco said this week, after it completed its acquisition deal for the company. Cisco had announced its acquisition of MaintenanceNet on July 8th, saying it would pay $139M for the startup. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. Importantly we also discussed: should startups raise small amounts of money or large? how should you organize teams in a startup? And make sure to pick up a copy of his book.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. 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.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2019

An unknown phone number was once all scammers needed to trick the average person into picking up the call.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It wasn't until the early 1960's, when men realized the power and prestige associated with software development, that women were not so subtly pushed out of the profession. Despite men's inroads into software development, many women continued to make significant contributions in the field of software design until the early 1970's.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. What is Classy?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

Pokki , the desktop app software developed by San Diego-based Sweetlabs, the startup headed by former DivX exec Darrius Thompson, is launching a big update to the software today, saying that it now has over 1 million monthly active users of the software. The release launches the company out of beta. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

As an entrepreneur mentor, my mission is to foster the attributes in you as a startup founder that I believe will lead to success. Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. Your organization, process, and team are in harmony. Start today.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2014

How do you bring an outside perspective and a startup''s nimble perspective to your products, if you''re a big, established company? Are developers willing to invest their time and energy in building solutions around your products, company, or organization? Tell me a little bit about your hackathons, what they are all about?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The Carlsbad, CA-based company has also developed software that it says can help healthcare providers and other organizations keep track of orthotic devices and bill patients for their use. On Tuesday, Breg announced it will be getting an assist on the software side from Redox , a healthtech startup based in Madison, WI.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

According to the founders, Contur is a virtual assistant that sorts and organizes your emails automatically. TechZulu caught up with the founders and this is what they said. Justyna Wójcik, our CEO, is a seasoned software developer and team leader. Yes, we’re powered by a seed round, and funding from Start Engine LA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. About 80 percent of that capital was actually still in the bank, because we had ramped up our revenues pretty quickly.

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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. We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. It’s like giving up control of your company. Don’t outsource your core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Simple metrics and your personal knowledge of the industry can’t keep up with all the relevant competitive forces. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the idea behind Rexter (www.rexter.com), which recently raised seed funding to ramp up its software to put "LinkedIn on steroids". We spoke with CEO and founder Andy Wilson about how Rexter is looking to help business professionals further develop their relationships. Andy Wilson: (Laughts) Where should I start?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. We talked with him on why he decided to head up this startup, and what 15desks is all about. 15desks is trying to make that whole part of your life more efficient, and much more manageable and organized for everybody. First of all, what is 15desks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. It’s like giving up control of your company. Don’t outsource your core competency.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Dedicated to our Clients.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). An on-line community for entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. It's pretty much been all organic. In 2001, I started ABCSearch, which as been in the PPC space for a number of years. What is Scour?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. You can use myfab5 to share your foodie knowledge by ranking up to five of your favorite places for any food or drink related category (e.g. What is myfab5? my favorite places for #DeepDishPizza in Chicago).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. It’s like giving up control of your company. Don’t outsource your core competency.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

No personal information is needed to activate, therefore, calls cannot be traced to a specific name or organization in any way. It should be as easy as stepping off a plane, popping in a card, start calling/texting/browsing with a quick 5-digit zip + baked in plan. The goal was to remove retailer assistance out of the product.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

We grew that business organically, never took any outside financing, and took the company public in 1997. Today's Sun storage platforms are based on the OS we had developed at Procom. Once that transaction was complete, I got up and started looking around. Now we have the technology, and are ready to go to market with it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Vmware and more. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Do you have what it takes?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

This question came up last week. I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. What can I do to best equip myself to step up when the need to officially fill this role arises? I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. Accounting?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands’ vision is to enable every person and organization to collaborate more effectively and get more done together anywhere without boundaries. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. When was it launched?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Old School Software Distribution Is Doomed. On December 10th, 1993, a small group of software developers in Shreveport, Louisiana changed the software world. id Software’s first-person shooter game, entitled simply DOOM, could be downloaded free, allowing gamers to play the first nine levels.

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