TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 11, 2021

A cursory appraisal of the implementation of this tech might lead one to believe it’s about providing individuals with easy proof of vaccination — but the tech, and Healthvana, are focused on informing individuals to ensure they participate in their own healthcare programs, not providing an immunity pass.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca For the first 5 years or so after I became a VC I didn’t talk much about what I thought a VC should be excellent at since frankly I wasn’t sure. It’s easy to think the role of a VC is to have strong opinions about markets, trends, tech dynamics and so forth. I don’t think this is the job.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 19, 2023

So, let’s bend the meaning to help us focus on resources while preserving those words. and apply it to our management of corporate resources. Here is a way to think about resource management as we make critical decisions that obligate our personal and corporate assets for growth. Take, for instance , time.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. What excites me about this space is that there’s so much low-hanging fruit.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2022

If you as a supplier have plenty of spare resources available, you might temporarily get away with adding “fast” to both other two attributes of good and cheap. Our good friend Adam Miller, founder of Cornerstone on Demand, uses words appropriate for software development when describing his version of this “pick any two” quandary.

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Inverted Software

AUGUST 9, 2021

“I hired a software development company from India. At Inverted software we know and have seen this all too often. We don’t just make software work; we make it shine! So what makes good software? So what makes good software? The ability of a software system to scale is tremendously important. Scalability.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2017

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. You’d know the symptoms, if not the name.

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Berkonomics

JULY 12, 2018

Senior management is usually prepared with an answer, and a good discussion of resource availability and application follows. Once the bottleneck is identified, the solution often comes quickly, requiring little if any board action as management focuses resources on the bottleneck to remove the latest impediment to efficiency.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. Tags: 15desks software saas education school university. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 5, 2017

So, let’s bend the meaning to help us focus on resources while preserving those words. Here is a way to think about resource management as we make critical decisions that obligate our personal and corporate assets for growth. We can always tell when that critical resource has been over committed. Take, for instance, time.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. That’s likely to be completely unreachable for you with almost any amount of resources. Sources for your data. TAM, SAM, SOM?

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2019

Santa Barbara-based software developer HG Insights is powering a new market research offering from research and advisory giant Forrester, to power Forrester's new Business Technographics Service.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? Dave Terry: We've been very fortune.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. We had an idea to recapture what we saw was a huge pool of unlimited corporate resources. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Essentially a business model where software is licensed and distributed from a central location, SaaS companies can now be found in telecoms, human resources, and more. The post Four Innovative SaaS To Get Excited About appeared first on TechZulu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP. Go find a new technical resource. So, just get down what you can in a form that works for you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. We caught up with Damir Davidovic, CEO of NEOGOV, to hear about the rapidly growing (and hiring) company. Damir Davidovic: NEOGOV is a cloud-based, human resources suite.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Lenido Startup tool: Accounting software Price: Free Accounting software doesn't need to come at a premium. While Hide.me

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. Moving from a company that had less resources (and presumably by the time their raising depleted resources) to a company with newfound resources can be telling. Act your stage. Objection Handling training.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

A good dashboard of relevant real time information is now available for most any business, often created by computer software from data derived from monitoring real time tasks within the business. And how about projecting cashflow? Consider these critical pieces of information.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

How about if it didn't matter where you stored those files, and they were available from anywhere? Describe what Younity is all about? You can use any device, and never think about where your file is. What's different about Younity from all the other cloud sharing applications out there? What we really care about is data.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

There is an application process and fee for members to join Collab Studio ATL, but the group hopes these costs will be subsidized by partners in the future — they say that the application process is more about assessing the needs about an entrepreneur or creator and what services they require from the space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Take accountability for execution by enabling success through resources, attention, and care. You as a leader must be transparent about how and why you are investing in one initiative over the other. You can provide the discipline and the resources for results. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of talent management and human resources software headed by Adam Miller, were up nearly 47 percent Thursday in its initial public offering. The firm, which debuted on the NASDAQ Global Market, had debuted in the morning at $13.00

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

There’s all these individual contractors out there and even though they are very affordable, it’s very hard for them to get to the homeowners, as they don’t have much resources,” Wu, a Chinese immigrant, told TechCrunch. “So So they come to us and we basically take care of it all.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. everything.

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Inverted Software

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At Inverted Software we pride ourselves in our unparalleled success rate, and while, according to the Standish Chaos Report 68 percent of technology projects is “improbable” meaning it failed, time and time again we keep delivering successful projects to our happy customers. Was Your Project Delivered On Time? Mark your checkbox!

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. As a result, software companies are turning to military trained hacking talent to help deal with this threat. Israeli software companies are the perfect example.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Business Portal includes a startup assistance tool, covering business registration, taxes, seller's permits, and the like; a resource library, with links to helpful city departments; plus a basic business "preparedness" guide about basic business management skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front. Of course, not all new businesses can benefit from all these recommendations, so think carefully about what you can do, and what you can’t. These steps alone can reduce your monthly burn rate by at least $10K.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. Facilitate rapid growth through contracted resources. The big question is how you can beat these odds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Join a startup incubator.

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