Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Information Officer.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

The Appallicious Rec & Park app is just one example of the good that can come from the utilization of government data. The platform is also being used by SFArts and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to create useful tools for the public using open data—stay tuned for these new apps which are due out later this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Information Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). Chief Information Officer.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! This talk will go deep technically, show practical examples, and connect all the concepts with the costs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. An example of this is you might be a physician at Cedars, but also be a physician at UCLA and a physician at St John''s.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. Commuting - The freeways here are legendary for traffic. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. The first rule of choosing a brand for anything is to figure out the image you want to project.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Our job as technology leaders (CTOs, CIOs, and other fancy titles) is to find and implement technology solutions for world/business problems. I’ve seen many examples of successful startups built in PHP, Java, ASP.Net, CGI, ROR, and many others. The whole notion of a company trying to make money from selling software makes me sick.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Our job as technology leaders (CTOs, CIOs, and other fancy titles) is to find and implement technology solutions for world/business problems. I’ve seen many examples of successful startups built in PHP, Java, ASP.Net, CGI, ROR, and many others. The whole notion of a company trying to make money from selling software makes me sick.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

That means skip the jargon and include explanations and examples. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Set realistic objectives and milestones. You can’t measure results if you don’t have a yardstick. Build qualified advisory board.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Our job as technology leaders (CTOs, CIOs, and other fancy titles) is to find and implement technology solutions for world/business problems. I’ve seen many examples of successful startups built in PHP, Java, ASP.Net, CGI, ROR, and many others. The whole notion of a company trying to make money from selling software makes me sick.

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PHP LAMP Java CTO Hire 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

While geolocation services are just now getting into the browser (see Mozilla’s geolocation features for Firefox for an example ) and the basic infrastructure being put in place, little critical mass has been achieved despite serious bids from major vendors in the past. You’re not the only one.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Let me use LA as an example. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Los Angeles. I live in the city of Santa Monica. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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