SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. So, I wanted to use this post to make it official - we are offering free startup CTO consulting sessions.

CTO Hire 264

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. So, I wanted to use this post to make it official - we are offering free startup CTO consulting sessions.

CTO Hire 259

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both?

CTO Hire 241

CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity Develop 241

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Tony has a Ph.D.

CTO Hire 175

CTO Hire Startup Metrics eHarmony 175

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. " Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

According to the founders, Contur is a virtual assistant that sorts and organizes your emails automatically. The founders add that Contur takes all of your emails, groups the related ones together so that you can see your emails in context. You may get emails related to our apartments at random intervals in your inbox.

Email 63

Email CTO Hire Startup Organization 63

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. What is Postie?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. The only way to deal with it is to unsubscribe when you receive a message, which takes time and energy.

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I usually judge people’s reactions not by the comments section of my post (where people are a little bit more polite so you get selective bias) but by the private emails I get. One great solution I see is to hire an outstanding CFO who runs both. Create hassles for post-merger integration of technology or teams.

Startup 292

Startup CTO Hire Sales Email 292

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Their fees are too high to put on a $15 ticket, and you don't need to pay for the technology to handle 30,000 people simultaneously trying to get assigned seats. Because of that, we saw problems in the industry, because the technology was not there to succeed. How did you get into the technology business?

Ticketmaster 140

Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

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.

CTO Coach 28

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I spent an hour on the phone working with Sam Rosen, the CEO of MakeSpace on a senior exec he is considering hiring. I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Get Permission.

Networking 366

Networking Startup CTO Coach Email 366

SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. Update from original - just saw a follow-up post by Ben Kuo - Southern California Technology Jobs Surge. I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire. My methods are pretty vanilla.

Develop 175

Develop Development TechEmpower Southern California 175

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. There is a core that exists in human connectedness that no amount of technology can replace. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. out of UC Irvine.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Are there particular technologies or platforms involved? Have they used the technologies that are involved in your project?

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Develop Development 204

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. Therese Tucker: My background is technology. It's unusual to have a CEO from the technology side, they're usually from sales. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine.

Startup 124

Startup Software Review CTO Hire Oracle 124

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Call it facts for hire.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly is also hiring. Feel free to email or drop a tweet with any questions about the journey, no matter what stage you’re in.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

CTO Hire 150

CTO Hire Venture Capital Startup Social Network 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. You should follow him on Twitter ( @jasonlbaptiste ) or say hi via email.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

LB: Currently, we are about 75% and that’s really because in this phase we have developed what I think is the most critical aspect of our platform, which is the technology that allows us to truly build our community. We also buffed up our technology. How did you identify what you needed, and how did you come to hire the right people?

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

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. Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. The Dry Run.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191