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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

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Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. What's the worst part of an accelerator?

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. Let me not bury the lede. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. After that weekend in Miami, he introduced us to his friend Jerry Murdock, who has invested in lots of tech companies. Both have been great mentors ever since.

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Understanding the Power of Your Human Networks

Both Sides of the Table

And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. My basic philosophy is that almost anybody can build a network by investing time in it. Maybe 50 if you really invest time and effort. In fact, I practice it myself.

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

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. We'd love to take money for that.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

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I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Accounting?

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