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Techstars Studio CTO, In Irvine, Aims To Help Entrepreneurs

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According to Techstars, it appointed Saldana Chief Technology Officer for Techstars Studio , which will help members of the the startup accelerator "rapidly envision, validate, and launch disruptive startups." Saldana is based in Irvine, where he co-founded SendGrid in 2009.

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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 million

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For chief executive Artyom Poghosyan and chief technology officer Alex Gudanis, Britive is simply the latest initiative in a decades-long effort to reshape security technology. Those cloud technologies presented new challenges for the kind of privileged access management technologies that Poghosyan had developed.

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Solekai Systems Names Marco Thompson As CTO

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San Diego-based Solekai Systems , a software development firm focused on the smart grid industry, said today that it has named Marco Thompson as its Chief Technology Officer. Thompson was most recently CTO at Wind River Services, is Vice Chairman of CONNECT, and is Managing Partner at venture firm Express Ventures.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

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Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc.

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City of Los Angeles Technology and Education Summit

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 -- City of Los Angeles Technology and Education Summit. It is spearheaded by Randi Levin the citys CTO and IT General Manager, and is the citys one and only annual technology event.

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eEye Shifts HQ To Phoenix

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eEye is now headed by Kevin Hickey, who assumed the role of CEo in December of 2009. The firm also recently named Marc Maiffrett, a co-founder of the firm, as Chief Technology Officer.