socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Almost everyone of a technical bent in the technology industry is familiar with that old routine: your parents, your friends, and your neighbors inevitably calls you for free technical support. However, almost no one really wants to be that technical support person. Why in home technical support?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The festival is part of an ongoing initiative by the British government to encourage development and growth in the city's tech startup community. We caught up with Andrew Humphries , the Tech City Champion, to learn more about growth and ambitions of London's Tech City. What is the Tech City Investment Organization? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

We caught up with Uygur--who has had his own show on Sirius Satellite Radio, hosted MSNBC Live, and currently has his own show on Current TV--to learn more about The Young Turks, his online efforts, and his views on how media is shifting to the Internet. How did online figure into your plans when you started The Young Turks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

These could convince you that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business in the last few years has grown by 18 percent year-over-year, with more than half (51 percent) now making up the aspiring small business owner pool.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

HelloTech said it will use the funding to aggressively expand its tech support service. The startup uses college students in order to provide in home technical support, with a focus on older users. Wolpert is an active, Los Angeles angel investor, and also is heavily involved in Los Angeles startup accelerator AmplifyLA.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2016

Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, in-home technical services company founded by serial entrepreneur and tech investor Richard Wolpert, said it is expanding into San Diego, and has begun offering up its services in the city. The company now offers up its services in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In fact, according to the most recent Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent SBA reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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JULY 9, 2012

But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. So last fall we started a spring clean , and since then we’ve closed or combined more than 30 products”. iGoogle users have been given up to 16 months to download and export their data.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Freemium business models are popular because they allow startups to quickly drive user adoption. It''s frankly easier to accelerate your startup''s growth and show faux traction if you omit the pesky step of asking users to pull out their credit cards.Let''s face it. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2015

We’ve always been huge advocates of startups. In the coming weeks we will begin to search out qualified startups who can take advantage of what Microsoft has to offer. Qualified startups can receive up to $60K in Azure cloud credits, technical support, access to Microsoft software, and more.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Increased network reliability, proactive infrastructure monitoring, and comprehensive technical support help maximize network uptime, which can save companies from expensive outages and reduced productivity. Greater Staff Productivity. Improved Network Quality. Better Security.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2015

REACH will host a one day Pitch Show-Down on September 24, 2015 pitting the best startups against one and other in front of a panel of experts. Investors looking to connect with the top startups. We’re currently searching out startups in the SoCal area who want $60,000 in FREE Azure cloud credits. Startups who are….

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2015

1 Get started early. If you’re planning to launch the latest version of a device, for example, make sure you’ve adequately allocated resources to keep up with the demand. If you don’t, now is the perfect time to start building one. According to a recent survey, around 40 percent of U.S. 2 Develop holiday sales.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. You’re not the only one.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

For a growing, successful startup, rebranding can be an effective way to redefine the company''s expansion beyond its initial core market. A prime example of an emerging startup, which has pulled off an effective rebranding effort, is Invoca ( I am an investor through Rincon Venture Partners ). However, after the Internet 1.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Just for fun, I’ve come up with a scoring system based on my own non-scientific survey to help you rate yourself on your level of Internet business acumen. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

The original spelling of “Micro-Soft” was not changed until twelve years after its founding, once the MBAs had transformed the scrappy startup into a big dumb company. Unfortunately, we completely abandoned the “technical support marketplace” after the dot bomb crash and began licensing our screen-sharing technology.

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