socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2017

The company is actually backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel Partners, and Warburg Pincus. Axios reports that the incorrect White House assertion might be because CrowdStrike's co-founder and CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch (an American citizen) is of Russian heritage.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. In this case the barrier would be reduced access to capital.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

CrowdStrike is venture backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel, and Warburg Pincus, among others, and is led by George Kurtz, the founder of Foundstone and former CTO of McAfee. CrowdStrike said Black will focus on infrastructure expansion of its platform. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer. and Kamran Pourzanjani, who founded Pricegrabber.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. 15mm in Series A.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2014

TAPP said that its investors include Discovery Communications, Demarest Films, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, as well as Ken Moelis, Peter Ezersky and Michael Huber. The company also said its co-founder and CTO is, Michael Greer, who was head of technology and product development for The Onion. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2011

AnyBeat is backed by Freestyle Capital, Social Leverage, Arthur Bilger, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Howard Lindzon, Tom Anderson, Alex Bard, Alex Karelin, Kenny Van Zant, and Francis Costello. Shapiro was the founder of Veoh and former CTO of MySpace Music.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

This round is being led by Point72 Private Investments, with previous backers Toba Capital, Index Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, BoxGroup, and VMG Partners also participating. Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Global Fitness Media is headed by Jake Steinfeld of Body By Jake Global, and is backed by Polar Capital Group, the private investment group of Tim Armstrong, Americas Operations & Senior VP at Google. READ MORE>>.

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CTO Hire Media IBM IBM 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Factual / Gil Elbaz - For the amount of success in his last startup, few people seem to know that Elbaz is behind Google's immensely successful Google AdSense product--originally known as Applied Semantics' AdSense. The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg.

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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. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 2 million equity round. Social login tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital? I talk in the video about the economics of venture capital and how we make money. Google’s investment in Zynga. Great exit. - Don’t.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital! Not Google. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. So I like that bit, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

If we don't change things, and if you're not Facebook or Google, then you'll have a tough time to survive in this ecosystem, because of issues like fraud and the lack of trust, changing standards, interoperability issues, and billing discrepancies. Our CTO, James Young, was at Zynga, and was an early engineer that launched Farmville.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. I'm sure that you had to think about that at Google and United Online.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. But I don’t think so. What truth?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. After BuildOnline, David was CFO at Spark Capital backed KickApps and when that got sold I called my friends on the board of an early startup called Fab and told them David was the best CFO I have worked with.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

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. This pitcher has retired 5 of the last 7 batters."

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Really, it's just another source of capital.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Google, and Facebook. Some have made the model work.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire? CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

Startup 102

Startup Equity Pricing Marketing 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. He brings a strong technology base to the table, as a former CTO, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He definitely has experience on both sides of the ‘entrepreneur versus investor’ table.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Blogging Java 92

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. They''re a Boston-based venture capital firm which as started by some ex-VCs from Insight Venture Partners.

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Startup El Segundo CTO Hire Outsource Development 160

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo!

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Equity Pricing Marketing 56

socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Speaking of NextMedium, can you tell us how that worked out, and how you ended up in venture capital? Most recently, that was dMarc, which they sold to Google. It might be a sign of the times, but I think one is being as capital efficient as possible. Was there anything you learned from NextMedium, or would do differently?

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Southern California Venture Capital Advertising Entrepreneur 164

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire? CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Equity Pricing Marketing 89

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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