SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There's a lot on my blog already around this topic. If this will be a hands on role, then you need to conduct some kind of Technical Screening/test. Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Sherrie Madia and Paul Borgese have addressed the positives of this challenge in their book, “ The Social Media Survival Guide ,” on “everything you need to know to grow your business exponentially with social media.” Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. Let them guide you.

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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. You could just outspend. The Holy Grail of. Innovative.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Sherrie Madia and Paul Borgese have addressed the positives of this challenge in their new book, “ The Social Media Survival Guide ,” on “everything you need to know to grow your business exponentially with social media.” Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card.

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Social Media Media Startup Content 85

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2014

This post was originally featured on the Pristine Engineering Blog. Rooted Google Glass Device with XE12 – Google provides a nice guide for rooting Glass devices. Why would we want to remove items from the “ok glass” menu? For our company, Pristine, Glass is an enterprise appliance, not a personal device.

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Google Design Content Screening 89

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. I call it “focus on basecamp, not the summit.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen. Because you put ads in front of user for a long time and cover the whole screen Meebo click-rates are very high.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Read the following as a guide. Stay on the radar – You need to find a very polite way to persistently be on the top of the radar screen of your VC. You’re just trying to stay on the radar screen. Let’s be honest.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Adding the Widget On the "Get the Widget" screen, youll be asked for your token URL. The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Then click "Get Started" and you can start deploying the widget. You can return to this stage of the process by clicking the "Sign-in" link from your applications home page.

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Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. I have a process I use for blog posts, too. I look carefully at who is speaking before me.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This post is a “how to” guide so I’ll save the “why I believe Snapchat is an important medium” for one of my next posts. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. So, too, Snapchat.

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