socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

The last few years in Los Angeles has been a heady one for the technology startup community, with hundreds of new startups, and a tangible enthusiasm in the air along Silicon Beach. They've also become a de-facto gathering place for the local community, hosting events, meetings, and more. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

” Normally it was my tech team just being cheeky with me about my withering technology chops. But … … was thinking about a very common BSAK error that I see committed – the “flaming email.” I would write the email and be as scathing as I wanted to be. The same is true about email.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Redland-based GIS software giant Esri announced on Friday morning that it has acquired ClearTerra , a developer of data extraction technology, from ClearShark, LLC. ClearTerra's technology helps extract unstructured data from emails, briefings, and reports, and automatically extracts geographic coordinates from that information.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup.

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Venture Capital Technical Review GRP Partners Email 290

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2017

As a result, organisations’ cyber security defences need to be more complex and broad than ever, taking into account not only technological vulnerabilities, but also the people who use that technology. Such attacks comprise both a technological component – the malware – but it is most often spread through social engineering.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based email software developer SaneBox , which develops artificial intelligence software that helps people prioritize and sort their emails, is now available on the cloud marketplace run by technology distributor Ingram Micro. The company says its tools work with any email provider, client, or device.

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Artificial Inteligence Email Tool Software 154

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. This requires more than technology. ” Me, “ok, but who is going to provide your technology? How will you grab email addresses? And we like to be entertained.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company. Get Permission.

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Networking Startup CTO Coach Email 366

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. Todd Gitlin is one of the best executive recruiters the technology & startup market in Los Angeles. It seems we live in an era of “ask.” Lots of asking.

Venture Capital 407

Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

For those of us who’ve invested in early stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. Email readers, continue here.] Prototype (reducing technology risk) $1/2 million. Sound Idea (basic value, product risk) $1/2 million.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We''re trying to identify the top 100 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California''s technology industry? Email Robyn Dickson at digitalfamilyreunion@gmail.com (with the subject SOCALTECH 100) for more details on sponsoring the award or the event. Nominations will close on Friday, November 1st. Interested in sponsoring the awards?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I usually judge people’s reactions not by the comments section of my post (where people are a little bit more polite so you get selective bias) but by the private emails I get. Create hassles for post-merger integration of technology or teams. Naturally some didn’t. “I need somebody to run operations.&#

Startup 292

Startup CTO Hire Sales Email 292

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

It’s true that some solutions are really hard to quantify and the most obvious example people point to is email. You can’t quantify the value of email yet everybody needs it!”. I know many modern software companies that are abandoning email in favor of more open systems as a way of reducing bureaucracy. Maybe they don’t?

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Sales Customer Custom Examples 328

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With lead investors like Fika Ventures and Fathom Capital, and co-investors, including Toyota AI Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Riot.vc, Osage University Partners and Stage Venture Partners, Elementary Robotics is readying itself for commercial pilots with a few undisclosed customers as it proves out its technology.

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Los Angeles Angel Artificial Inteligence CalTech 207

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email. The Verge was the first to report the story.

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Los Angeles Technical Review Email Services 215

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2017

j2 Global said it has acquired MyPhoneFax , which operates Fax87 and Onlinefaxes.com; CloudRecover , an Australian cloud backup provider; WeCloud , a cloud email company in Sweden; and Simitu , a cloud email provider in Denmark. j2 Global also said it has sold Cambridge BioMarketing LLC, which was a subsidiary of Everyday Health, Inc.

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Company Companies Email Acquisition 133

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). Responsive Low Hanging Fruit – I view email in the category of urgent but not (always) important. I couldn’t. Some of it is important, no doubt.

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Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

And even the best teams combined to create big innovations sometimes don’t time markets well, are surprised by unexpected technology breakthroughs by competitors or just don’t find the magic the leads to mass customer adoption. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails.

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

“ServiceTitan’s incredibly fast growth is a testament to the brisk demand for new mobile and cloud-based technology that is purpose-built for the tradesmen and women in our workforce,” said Battery Ventures general partner Michael Brown — who’s taking a seat on the ServiceTitan board.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] One of the items on Cohen’s list of twenty-five was stock options. That of course jumps to the top of the list for young, fast growing technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

He wanted to know what I thought of his technology deal. My email back to him was a version of. I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. He’s wise, thoughtful and has made money across so many different industries it’s humbling.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Email 333

Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Accelerators are popping up in college towns, urban cities and near existing technology hubs. Some have become well known in the entrepreneurial community as benchmark operations for others to emulate, including TechStars and Y-Combinator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. after all you aren’t presenting this at TED. What should be in your deck?

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2014

During your venture’s early stages, each partnership, fundraising round and new customer results in incremental revenue, capital and greater propagation of your company’s technology. After you rang the Bell, you then sent an email to the entire company explaining the accomplishment you were celebrating. The Bell was not my idea.

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Startup Oracle Journal Email 262

Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2017

Email readers, continue here…]. Train and transfer technology to each new distributor within 90 days of signing. Here are several examples of tactics from my recent experience with companies where I serve as board member. Strategy Three: Expand into at least three new continents through new distribution channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

That is sudden change, brought about by the fast acceptance of the cassette, which in turn gave way to the next technology, CDs, after a rather short lifecycle. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . This shows itself when people try to do an elevator pitch, send concise, actionable emails or have a quick phone call with you to ask for help. .

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Startup Writing Help Email 364

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

Along the way, we found ourselves constantly surprised by unanticipated applications that suddenly appeared and gained huge adoption across the Internet; this was the case with email, the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer file sharing, user generated content, Napster, YouTube, Instagram, social networking, etc.

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UCLA Social Media Social Network Santa Barbara 253

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s technology works as a middleware including an SDK and a contract notification and monitoring service. 24 hrs) and users receive a text/email notification regarding the execution,” Wan wrote to me an email.

Software Review 159

Software Review Outsource Development Services Technical Review 159

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Our clients are retail, technology, consumer product goods, and other companies who are trying to address challenges with a very complex, digital marketing mix they face every day. Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web.

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