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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations firm to serve software and hardware companies, which became a marketing consulting business ( www.Allen.com ) when I moved to L.A. Hey, radio.

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Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

ReadWriteStart

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. Aron Yechezkel, our CTO, would definitely open and run a bouldering gym. We have been also working with our engineering team since SayYeah in 2015. What other startups have team members been involved with? Sceenic is based in London.

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Will Meta’s Metaverse efforts survive the latest setbacks?

VC Cafe

” A number of key execs departed including COO, CTO and other s… With the rise of TikTok and BeReal, Facebook is losing its grip in the top 10 social apps Meta r aised the price of its two-year-old Quest 2 by $100 citing rising costs. For example, in 1998, Prof. And that self-selection is okay with me.”

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The founding pair realized that they needed to pivot into becoming a software company, and in late 1998, completely shifted their focus to delivering athenaNet, their Web-based medical billing platform, as a cloud-based software service for all doctors.

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Markets for Ideas and Patent Trolls

Diego Basch

That’s why Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO and chef extraordinaire , was able to raise $5B to create a repository of ideas. He got it in 1998, back in the relatively early days of the internet. It’s about the US patent system and how it’s broken to an extent that’s ridiculous. Patent number 5771354.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!