Oracle Services Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 21, 2009
On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 19, 2013
And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake. Professional services = higher rate of successful rollouts.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. Similarly I liked to keep myself apprised of the technical decisions we were making. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 19, 2022
With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. Yet the value of real relationships, as with consumer customers, has become critical to your business services growth and success.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2012
A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things. No one was really focusing their products and services for those customers in a good way. They all wanted to deploy the service at their location.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. That leverage technology or drive change. But my definition of the word is much broader.
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