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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

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.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

We spend hours of seemingly “wasted&# time just in these informal chats simply shooting the shit. 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.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

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. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

socalTECH

We''re a one stop shop for clinical and financial management of their practice, including a cloud-based electronic health records solution, letting them manage all of their clinical information, and moving those paper forms to electronic form. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google.

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

SoCal Delicious

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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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

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.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

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. Entrepreneurs who have a startup upload their company’s information and create a startup page.

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