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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Amplify , the startup accelerator program being run by Paul Bricault in Venice Beach, has tied with a cloud computing provider, Joyent , the two said this morning. The two said they are in a partnership, where Joyent will provide free cloud computing resources and marketing services to Amplify's portfolio companies.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , which develops open source, cloud computing management software, has linked with a developer of scaling software for the Java programming language, Terracotta, the firms said Tuesday. Tags: eucalpytus java cloud computing amazon terracotta. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

In short, acknowledge they exist, be transparent about strengths & weaknesses and use your differences to talk about how you want to position yourself in the market. Marketing Differentiation – Salesforce.com is one of the most effective marketing organizations in the world because Marc Benioff is a genius at marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, said Wednesday that it has rolled out its first commercial offering, focused on enterprise customers.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm RightScale announced today that the firm is partnering with a number of other software providers to deliver business intelligence software on its cloud management platform. Tags: rightscale cloud computing business intelligence. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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MARCH 5, 2014

For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloud computing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals? READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Calient said its new funding will go towards expanding its products to the data center and cloud computing markets. The round came from both new and existing investors. Names of those investors were not disclosed. CALIENT Technologies is headed by Atiq Raza, and develops modular photonic switching systems. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. A normalization of the venture capital market will bring more rational valuations over time but should produce more stable companies and better returns for VCs and LPs. The Coming Brick Wall.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

The two companies said the investment and strategic partnership will help them accelerate business expansion into the global market and the enterprise cloud computing market. Morphlabs is headed by serial entrepreneur Winston Damarillo. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. I think NY has always – by definition – been urban. But there does seem to be huge startup energy around the Flatiron District / Union Square.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Santa Monica-based virtual server and cloud computing provider Infinitely Virtual announced this morning that it has completes its move of its backup data center from San Diego to Boston. Infinitely Virtual provides virtual servers for the small and midsize business market. The firm had announced the move in January.

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JULY 1, 2010

Eucalyptus said the funding will go to scale development, marketing, and sales of its commercial open source private cloud management software. The firm's software is used to manage the deployment of cloud computing systems, and works with Amazon Web Services.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos , has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning.

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JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor , which develops chips for the high performance networking market, said today that it has expanded its sales presence in India. Vitesse said the move comes as the country of India has been projected to become the second largest mobile broadband market in the next four years. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. Well marketed. It’s a market commentary, not a company commentary. I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. It’s about 10 minutes long. In a word, awesome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

Cloud computing is all the rage in the startup world these days. Many say it’s just marketing hype applied to old principles that have been around for a long time. Now you can pay for a metered service delivering compute power, data, and storage, based on your business demand, through the Internet.

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MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. They get marketed as such. As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes. Not solving a real problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Cloud solution adopters can increase available storage space, increase scalability, reduce administration complexity and slash the costs of personnel, hardware, power, cooling and the inevitable “end-of-life” data center upgrade cycle. The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology.

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MAY 10, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Novacoast , a provider of IT professional services and product development, said Monday that it has acquired Data Technique , a provider of IT services to the Midwest market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor , a developer of high speed networking chips, is trumpeting hiring growth and its outlook, saying that it is planning a long list of new products as its customers serving the carrier and data center markets see growth. The firm develops components for the 10G optical, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet market.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Calabasas-based NetSol Technologies has created a new division to tackle the cloud computing market, the firm announced this morning. NetSol said that its new division, NetSolCloudVM, will offer infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) products to the North American market.

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MARCH 5, 2012

According to the firm, it has shipped four new physical layer transceivers (PHYS) for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 40GbE markets for the optical fiber communications market, as well as a new 40G Serial Mux/Demux chipset. Both sets of products are used for data center and enterprise networking. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2013

Irvine-based Netlist , a publicly listed developer of memory for the cloud computing and storage market, announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in credit financing. The funding came from Fortress Investment Group.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

in a funding round, to bring its social analytics engine for gaming companies to market. Los Angeles-based Ninja Metrics announced this morning that it has raised $2.8M The startup, which came out of technology developed from a group of university researchers, said the $2.8M

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix announced this morning that it has hired Tina Gravel as its new Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Gravel joins from Terremark, a provider of cloud computing services, which was acquired by Verizon last year. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2010

The global cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012, according to IBM based on various market estimates. Please join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum for their annual software program this year focusing on Cloud Computing.

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JULY 20, 2010

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. What's Morphlabs?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). Adam Goldenberg , Intelligent Beauty/JustFab (El Segundo, fashion). Matthew Goldman , Wallaby Financial (Pasadena, financial).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Entrepreneurs should unabashedly copy Pink Floyd's simple, yet effective market validation strategies. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation. Pay To Play.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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