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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, October 09, 2009. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. The SaaS 13 Index representing the 13 major public SaaS companies has recovered very strongly (up 82.36%) since the beginning of the year, outperforming strongly the NASDAQ (up 29.5%).

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. I know I didn’t. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers

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Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic → Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse Micropreneur Spotlight , Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Popular Posts

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Popular Posts Posted on October 8, 2009 by fnazeeri Once again, here is a list of some of the more popular posts on this blog.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core.

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Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic | Software by Rob

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Micropreneur Spotlight: Online Mind Mapping Software ThoughtMuse Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? → Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 6, 2009 A large batch of videos, slides, and audio Ive been trying very hard to avoid turning this blog into a travelogue. Normally, I try to make my post-event writeups more than just a transcript, by including reactions and comments. On this speaking tour, thats been simply impossible, so Ive decided to let the following collection of videos, podcasts, and slides batch up for a little while.

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Don't Get High On Your Own Supply

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 3, 2009. Dont Get High On Your Own Supply. "Lesson number two: dont get high on your own supply" -- Elvira Hancock At betaworks we try to (over) simplify some key principles ( no business development , for example) to operate our businesses, and look for inspiration for those ideas in disparate pockets.

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Hard to Evaluate Knowledge Workers

SoCal CTO

Some Dilbert backup on why it's hard to Evaluate the Performance of Knowledge Workers :

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New Study: Market Structure is Causing the IPO Crisis

Pascal's View

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. To be clear, this process began over eleven years ago and, in my view, it is the single most important issue for the venture capital community because it jeopardizes an entire generation of innovative American companies.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! I have detected a secret virus in your CPU. Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. There is only one way to prevent disaster: you must click the subscribe button over on the right there.

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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The VC Gender Gap - Are VCs Sexist?

Seeing Both Sides

I find the preponderance of males in VC an annoying and stubborn phenomenon. When I first entered the start-up game as an entrepreneur in the mid 1990s, I didn't think much of the "VC gender gap" as there were plenty of women executives around. In fact, between one third and one half of the executive teams at my two start-ups (Open Market and Upromise) were women.

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