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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites.

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The Truth Behind Display Advertising: Adomic's Quest For Transparency

socalTECH

We had been building technology around a publisher interface, and starting seeing the same things from customers, who wanted to understand what was happening on their site, what their competition was doing, and what advertisers were doing. I met my co-founder and CTO, Tom, there, and worked on a bunch of projects together.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

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MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. For me, FI was great for networking with Adeo and the other mentors, who are all world class successful entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the other founders in the program. How did you do that?

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Interview with Justin and Dawn Newton, Netki

socalTECH

In my case, I had a mentor at the time who helped me understand how there was a parallel between the printing press and the Renaissance, and the Internet as the next step in information and communications. From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT. We'll also be taking our customer from the domestic, U.S.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Has convertible debt won?

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