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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo Majid Abai is the Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed. Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show.

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SoundCloud Hits 180 million Users Revamps Portal & Opens To The Public

Tech Zulu Event

The world’s leading social sound platform said Next SoundCloud is out in private beta and open for public use as the world’s only platform of the kind. Only Platform Of Its Kind. Eric Wahlforss, founder and CTO said the platform is great after revamping it following feedback from the community during the beta release.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

socalTECH

We did a successful trial in 2008. We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Tracking Action Sports With ActiveReplay's Trace Sensor, with David Lokshin

socalTECH

Unlike those, however, one of the latest projects, ActiveReplay (www.activereplay.com) has some serious, experienced executives behind it, who have the experience in designing hardware devices--in the form of CEO Dr. Anatole Lokshin, who helped create the consumer GPS market as the CTO of Magellan Navigation. How did that happen?

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

Xconomy

In a recent interview, Certona CEO Meyar Sheik said the company has taken a measured approach since he founded Certona in 2004 with CTO Geoffrey Hueter. Unlike many of its rivals, Sheik said Certona had raised a total of only $7 million in venture capital (in 2008) from ABS Ventures of Waltham, MA, and San Diego’s Express Ventures.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

socalTECH

Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. It turned out to be fortuitous timing, we closed the round in literally, late, late, late 2008. We're all technology guys in the way, and were not in the apparel space.