Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) I mostly like to have coverage in the tech press where most of my customers (entrepreneurs) and business partners (other VCs) are. It’s the same thing for me as a writer. that they probably read the main tech blogs.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2018

You’d be hard-pressed to find a workplace today where using technology isn’t an integral part of the job, whether it’s an AI-powered recruiting tool, special coding software for app development, or even just Google Sheets that help workers keep track of budgets. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Get tips on mastering social media and earning coverage for your company in the press and on the web. Come join us for a stellar panel and great networking. Moderators: Matt Crowley, Attorney, Crowley Corporate Legal Strategy; Tracy Olmstead Williams, President and CEO, Olmstead Williams Communications. Panelists: Benjamin F.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, Nicole Jordan , who has been instrumental in bringing together the Los Angeles technology industry over the last few years, talks about the issues that come when a CEO is out of sync with their target market and the media, and how PR pros deal with it. They just aren't getting it," she said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

This was exactly the approach Steve took when he self-published Four Steps via Café Press, at the behest of his then star pupil, Eric Ries , Co-Founder of IMVU and the author of The Lean Startup. According to Steve, “The original version (of Four Steps) was printed on tree bark at Café Press. I have to thank him for that.”.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. What kind of insurance are you offering now through those apps and the web?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

The unusual move--Business.com is best known for its aggregated business search listings and information, rather than software--makes technology internally developed for the firm available to any developer. The software is available for free from the Sourceforge.net web site, where it has been posted since October. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. VC is a long-term business Some businesses are overnight successes but few of them really move immediately up and to the right.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? In general, we seem to be building too many positive re-enforcement systems on the web. That plus great press & it’s working on some level. Let’s understand why they’re getting better press.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 22, 2013

I spent a few days in New York last week with members of the press and industry influencers and realized that RTB is getting a lot of attention. At Rubicon Project, we pioneered automation and our technology platform supports all four. But RTB isn’t the only thing that matters when it comes to advertising automation.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Google would be in peril.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four 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 week. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To prevent these potential outcomes, telecom operators should focus on real-time signaling level analysis, combined with advanced machine learning technology to take a proactive approach to SIP hackers, rather than a reactive one, which is often too late to prevent fraud.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. However, Tushnet argues that the use of the blockchain alone isn’t enough to solve the pressing legal questions over derivative works. We’re still in incredibly early days for this technology,” said Federa.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. And so you have great local tech press like Business Insider who covers the industry very well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. But don’t let this information get out into the general press and don’t market more than a few months out. You’re reading their press releases or blog posts.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. A great opportunity for more visible networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Talent – in a world where startup founders are rewarded handsomely for taking risks of building their own startup companies and where the press shines a brighter light on them, much of the early-stage company traction will come from startups.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. Gary Bishop: My background, prior to Network Automation, was in the financial technology marketplace. The technology has just exploded. We have a very strong fan base.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

It's a pretty established, mature market, which has existed since the beginning of the printing press, but has evolved forward for hundreds of years and has been going through a lot of changes in the last twenty years. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. ICQ (sold by AOL to Digital Sky Technologies ). LivingSocial.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

Technologies used: MySQL Back End and APNS Push Services. Technologies used: NodeJS and MongoDB. Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Technologies used: node.js, web sockets. Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Technologies used: iOS.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. How do we inspire women to support other women in pursuing careers in technology?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

Their demise, albeit painful in the short term, frees the employees (and in some cases the underlying technology) to pursue more productive opportunities. The rapid growth of seed investments is the natural result of a number of industry trends, which continue to drive down the cost of launching and operating a web-based business.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

As the most connected and technologically equipped generation in human history, Gen-Y entrepreneurs are using today’s tools of communication, collaboration and mobility to build startups with little or no startup capital and few employees. Lighten your load with technology. Avoid all work and no fun.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. But, I was really passionate about music, and technology, and the convergence of the two, and wanted to see if I could built out my own business. Vic Caretti: There are so many things happening in the music and technology space. Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. The press will romance the topic and then spurn it. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation. Will this Trend Last? In my mind there is no doubt this a lifetime trend. Venture capital will be easy and then hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was introduced by a senior technology executive that I really respect in the LA area and a close friend of mine told me separately that he would like to invest if they did a friends & family round. We all know that many companies have tried to deliver targeted advertising on the web. is important. Sir, what do you actually do???

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

In the world of residential real estate, there are now web and mobile services for everything from finding a new home, comparing neighborhoods and properties, to finding a mortgage, and even handling paperwork and closing. How do you apply technology to help improve that industry? Mike DeGiorgio: That's a good question.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2010

Elluminate and Wimba offer advanced virtual classroom technology that allows education institutions to hold synchronous live courses over the Web, including audio, video, white board and social learning capabilities. From the press release: Financial Details of the Elluminate and Wimba Acquisitions. Blackboard Inc.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world. We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there.

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