SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

One of the biggest areas where the cloud is transforming business is in small and medium sized businesses--where suddenly, companies are able to leverage software which wouldn''t be available, or are too costly for them to implement individually, but where the cloud access suddenly makes it affordable and easy. What does Kareo do?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team? It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

There''s a fair amount of software and computer science involved in this area. Where did all of that technology come from? Jeff Curie: It is a very advanced piece of technology. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. You don't need a lot of documentation of these items. They couldn't plan their business.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. What happens when you have a really good developer is that a gap exists where you may not ask the right questions to specify the right system, consider appropriate 3rd party technologies, etc. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

I spent about 20 years in that space, starting with some East Coast companies, including Digital Gateway Systems, which you might was where one of our users first posted the Scientology documents to the Internet, and we ended up getting sued by the Scientologists to protect our user.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? The "Questions" post is probably the most important. I'm always happy to try to help startups figure out how to go after creating their MVP.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Up until a few years ago most software companies used the ‘waterfall’ method of development that required lots of documentation (detailed marketing requirements specifications, functional and design specifications, etc.)

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. Application Characteristics Any discussion of performance starts by understanding what the software does, how it is used, and what it interacts with. One notable gap in the 32 Questions post is Performance.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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