SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We've built a tool like Gmail, for all of your public conversations, as a Chrome extension witin Gmail. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. On sales I often talk about “ Why Buy Anything, Why Buy Now, Why Buy Me ” as a tool to think about a sales process. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS. type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS. Really fun stuff these days.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Your remote control has two buttons. And be generous.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. The Application. Stay Tuned. What should I do?’. Where Do You Fit? m pleased. &#

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts? I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. Tony: I come at this a bit different, especially a focus on use of social networking tools as part of this.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. CitySourced provides a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civil issues (potholes, graffiti, trash, snow removal, etc.) What are you working on now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest. When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. But either tool should do the trick. I’ve been getting better results.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Whether they originate in IM, message board trheads, mail lists or blog posts - conversations can be brought together, made re-enrant and be enhanced with media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

This is especially useful if you use links in social media (blogs, tweets, Facebook links or YouTube links) to grab some traffic. Head over to his blog and check out the books he’s written on the subject: [link] b.) Use this tool to build your Google-Analytics-friendly URL so that you can track your inbound link traffic: [link].

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The healthcare tools of the future often start as research projects in academic medical centers, but they may not break out into widespread clinical practice until some sort of logjam gives way to make them workable and affordable. In 2012, when we started, Amazon had just released the GPUs into the public cloud,” Axerio-Cilies says.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

Case in point the recent HBR blog post: The Social Media Bubble , by Umair Haque where he advances the following hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connecting us as much as we think it is. Everything is Matching The real promise comes about as we get better tools for navigating all of this.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. We had lots of work to do, and although we had a story creating tool, we needed to build a story saving network, because it's all about the stories. It's boom, boom, boom, and that creates a story.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. We had lots of work to do, and although we had a story creating tool, we needed to build a story saving network, because it's all about the stories. It's boom, boom, boom, and that creates a story.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

You go use Google's Adwords Keyword Tool and you plug in your keyword and see the results. Blog to build credibility and create original content. And this is not all that hard to do. For example, let's say I'm looking at SEO in farming. I might get back: So, great news. I do believe that there's value in SEO for Startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. . Robert Scoble.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Heather McPhaul is the founder of AgingGal.com , a funny little blog about aging and other inconveniences.

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