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JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: LawKick.com is essentially a marketplace that makes it easier than ever to find legal help. How the website works, is the client goes to the website, and indicates what they need help with. You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. It''s more of a silent auction.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk , which is developing a cloud platform to help retailers with logistics automation and shipping, has hired to new executives. The company said it has named Koreen Pagano as Vice President of Product and George Chapman as Vice President of Engineering. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Anyone who hires anyone, or has ever looked for a jobs knows how important a resume is. The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent. Are people using the product now? What does Rolebot do?

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Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). It now seems that Mark is more firmly in control.

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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?

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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JUNE 21, 2014

The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. After 6 months – you know. You REALLY know.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

CallFire today extended its position as a leading provider of text message and voice apps that help organizations grow, with the launch of a definitive next-generation platform capable of scaling to meet the exploding global demand for advanced cloud telephony features, services and capacity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.

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MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. hours of TV / day.

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JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.

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JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. going to put it on their channel on Youtube, or maybe their website platform. Those two pieces helped feed each other.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa: If you have ever been in a position where people come to you to as for help, you find that you end up answering lots of the same questions, over and over again. That ends up being a waste of time, especially in larger enterprises. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees.

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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.

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MARCH 8, 2013

DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools. What they then immediately start to do, is prototype the product.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. Scot Richardson: Yes, they've hired us, and we hope it's a good sign.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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JULY 23, 2012

As a hiring manager, and as the former CTO of Buy.com, Navid Nobakht , Co-Founder of Recmnd.Me ([link] had a problem--how to really figure out if someone he was hiring could actually execute. The problem we're trying to solve, is one I found from in my experience as a hiring manager in the IT industry.

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JULY 22, 2016

What's your product, and what is it used for? Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. We're focused on a product which makes for a more efficient, safer, workplace. So where are you now with your product?

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MARCH 12, 2013

We caught on with the right product, at the right time. Content delivery networks are there to help improve the performance, and serve up that content more intelligently to devices, to thd network, and to users, as they consume the Internet. You have to be able to be disruptive to existing products and services.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. They are watching content on the TV or on their laptop while playing with their smartphone or tablet at the same time.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

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MAY 2, 2017

Andrew Bermudez , co-founder and CEO of Irvine-based Digsy (www.getdigsy.com) wasn't looking to build software to help commercial real estate brokers close more deals. However, he quickly discovered the deal data the company was collecting was not just data--but a guide to the best practices on helping brokers close more deals, quickly.

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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. Unless people feel a certain level of appeal towards what you are doing, they are less likely to want to help you.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Are there particular technologies or platforms involved? And you will want to make sure you see what the particular designers have done, samples of their work product, their process, etc. Do they help with transition to in-house or other developers? Do you have the functionality defined? Do you have scale issues now or later?

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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. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. 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.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. We spend hours of seemingly “wasted&# time just in these informal chats simply shooting the shit. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location.

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