TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Who’s helping you with fundraising? Marketing Support What does your application need to do to help with marketing?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer. Strategic investors like DSM, one of the largest food biotech companies in Europe should help.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2022

San Diego-based Koji, which develops an app store for helping creators earn money, said late Tuesday that it has raised $20M in its Series B fundraising. Shapiro previously founded the video sharing site Veoh, and also was the CTO of MySpace, in addition to serving at Google. The company says it has now raised a total of $36M.

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socalTECH

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. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. What''s LawKick about? READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. This too shall pass.”

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

B, the school’s principal asking me to come into her office. I was surprised to learn that the reason she asked me to come see her was to help the school with a problem with sexting, Facebook/Myspace and cyber-bullying. At first, she thought she was safe because she had found that he had Googled the word “poo.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s VCs have different views and strategies on this.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Global Fitness Media recently launched GoodFoodNearYou , an online site which helps consumers find healthy food choices at restaurants, and is in the midst of developing Fitplanet , focused on fitness and healthy living. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Weve started with dark web monitoring, and we are adding credit monitoring to help our users better control their digital identity. With both people search and identity protection functionality, we provide the most comprehensive people intelligence to help our users know more. Harrison Tang is the CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” But I went back to the office and talked with Stuart Lander & David Lapter and said, “no prizes for guessing which job Ethan’s going to take.” So there you have it.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics. The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Help is everywhere. Here’s a link: [link] c.)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg.

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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?" In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Factual / Gil Elbaz - For the amount of success in his last startup, few people seem to know that Elbaz is behind Google's immensely successful Google AdSense product--originally known as Applied Semantics' AdSense. The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. Talk about the technology behind your operations here?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. Talk about the technology behind your operations here?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. They want someone who understands their current role and can help them be successful there. Most of us are not Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. But issues do arise as your company grows.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” So my flip suggestion was actually not all that helpful. The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. The firm is backed by Google Ventures, as well as a number of well known angels. You're backed by Google, isn't that right?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Ask for help. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2012

Goko, a new HTML5 games company based in Redwood City California is set to help game developers easily distribute and monetize social games. Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO. He said,“Today we’re starting to release new games across Facebook, Google+, and Goko.com, Windows Store, Android and iOS.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do we want to use something like SendGrid in order to help with delivery?

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry. We can help them reduce their losses and also increase approval rates with machine learning models. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do we want to use something like SendGrid in order to help with delivery?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Ask for help. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Its underlying technology competes directly with top companies such as Google, Gravity and Klout which use their own “Knowledge Graphs”.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. How did it help you? What are you working on now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history. The stories still to be told?: Back together.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. Sorry, I wish I could be more help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. And he has truly been a pleasure to work with.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I know that some of the best businesses have seen this rapid acceleration quickly: Google, Facebook, Instagram, AirBnB and the like. Not Google. Stuart Lander , who was the President & COO is now helping run Internships.com. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. Reach it quickly or investors will look elsewhere.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Headed by famed Google AdSense creator Gil Elbaz, Factual has created a massive, cloud-based repository for data on geolocated. analytics to help companies track and optimize their marketing effort. technology heavyweights Avamar (sold to EMC), and EchoSign (sold to Adobe)--among others. Tony Karrer, who runs the LA CTO.

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