He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. In L.A. SV issue.

Brea-based IMS Company , a manufacturer of in-flight portable entertainment players and related products, said Friday that it has acquired Flight Deck Resources, a provider of hardware for flight deck management on airplanes. According to IMS, Flight Deck Resources will become a new division, which will be known as IMS Flight Deck.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 -- The BioTech Forum's BioTech Resource Roundup. This very timely BioTech Forum event will provide valuable information to the life science/ biotech industry in the form of resources available in the region. See [link] (more

The benefit of a product is you are selling a thing and not your time. So how do you turn a service into a product? Smaller companies are so busy hustling to make a buck; they usually only do an ok job at productizing their service. They took a resource intensive business and figured out how to scale the hell out of it.

Irvine-based Epicor Software , a developer of ERP and other business software, disclosed Tuesday that it has signed on South American firm American Glass Products (AGP) Columbia. Epicor said the AGP will use its enterprise resource planning products. Tags: software planning resource enterprise columbia epicor

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software said today that it has released new software aimed at the storage resource management market. According to Quest, the firm's new product, Storage Horizon, measures storage usage, helps with provisioning, and provides automated storage analysis and reporting. READ MORE>>.

Most often I'm being brought in the early stage, Start-up or Expansion (as the company looks at new product lines). Conduct meetings to ensure understanding and alignment around market opportunities, business model, sources of revenue, immediate needs, growth, product opportunities, and ultimately to establish business and product priorities.

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops human resources and talent management software, said Thursday that it has linked with a firm to reseller its products in the Asia Pacific region. The firm will resell Cornerstone OnDemand's SaaS products in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan.

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , a developer of software for talent and human resources management, announced today that it has rolled out a new version of its product targeted at the mid-size business market. Tags: cornerstone ondemand software saas human resources Pricing on the new software was not disclosed.

Santa Monica-based Cornertone OnDemand, a provider of software-as-a-service tools for human resources management, said this week that it has added new social networking features to the firm's product. The new product provides online communities, user profiles, blogs, and wiki features for business collaboration. READ MORE