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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? I understand his frustration.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. He built their entire publishing and analytics platform, and spent more than four years there before he came to join us to start this. Tony Adam is an advisor, he was formerly at MySpace.

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Eight Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg

InfoChachkie

1) Get A Mentor. "I Given Facebook's numerous corporate governance mistakes during its early days, Mark would have been well served to have cultivated a mentorship with one or more savvy Advisors. " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. " [Tweet this quote].

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

socalTECH

Parenting has always required a village of support, and we consider our platform to be that village. I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. We've had a lot of advisors along the way, in the financial and technology realm, which has helped us with everything.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers.

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