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MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point

SoCal CTO

Maybe its because Im 66", but I think most clothes shopping really stinks and when was the last time that a sales person was actually helpful. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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Privacy, Authenticity, Engagement:  The Struggle for Virtuous Technology

The Startup Magazine

The issue may also lie in the history of open source apps and software: the beginning of the internet may have championed collaborative free tech, but what exists now is not free and, I would argue, is less than virtuous. Nothing is Free. Slowly, policies are changing to protect users. We should be able to trust it.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. That's great to hear.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization also helps you optimize ad sales if you’re doing pure advertising.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Along these lines, we are starting to hear serverless more and more from the Fortune 500 and see this trend reflected in the sales pipeline at iopipe which has gone from mostly startups to larger companies. For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be Unfortunately, none are very focused on Florida (California and New York are the top two destination). How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. Carlos - Here is a list of super angels along with what they invest in and where.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Although I have an EE and CS education, my best contribution to technology businesses has been in strategy/sales/marketing/leadership. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. Drupal is prevalent in the Silicon Valley ecosystem?