SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Being tenacious without the mental flexibility to pivot based on market feedback is a disaster. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. If I can do a good job with my blog content, then I can effectively be doing a keynote per day.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros. He’s our sounding board for technical operations, specially with content protection. Entertainment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . He is a frequent public speaker.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit.

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