Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles' Chief Risk Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Compatible work styles. Complementary skills. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. So there you have it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Compatible work styles. Complementary skills. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. We're finalizing the DFM, design for manufacturing. What's your product, and what is it used for?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Compatible work styles. Complementary skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Risk Officer.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. It''s designed for business people. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In In my experience a big part of building a winning team is recognizing who the MVPs are from the start. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. All of this makes such a big difference in terms of reducing the amount of work and time that members need to find meaningful connections.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

came to engineer and serial entrepreneur David Kaiser (Founder and CEO) in 2008 while surfing on his laptop while watching TV. Kaiser joined forces with Bruce Schwartz (Founder and CTO) to write an entirely new code language they called Interactive Television Markup Language (ITVML). has accomplished. The ideation behind Coincident.TV

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). is also hiring. Rob Maigret. Stay tuned for the upcoming Ming.ly

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Build a SWAT team By Frank Addante (Part 4 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Any entrepreneur, CEO or CTO should always have a development SWAT team on hand. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. I love the design of your product.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. How-to get that guy as your mentor - Gabriel Weinberg , September 20, 2010 Forming a couple of good mentor relationships can help bridge the gap between startup failure and success, especially for first-time entrepreneurs.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

One of the first investments I did in computer vision was Osmo, a product designed to get children off of the couch and to stop starting into an iPad and instead get them using physical objects (and other people!) His co-founder and COO, Andy Berman , made the smart move from being a young VC to becoming an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office. He downs cold ones with the head of biz dev.

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