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How to Deal with Skeletons in your Closet

Both Sides of the Table

A company has just filed suit against you for product patent infringement (obviously more serious). Your CTO and leading technology visionary has just announced he’s quitting. It’s ok to not admit to snoring on the first meeting but it’s not okay to ask somebody to champion you without complete information.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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Bitvore (www.bitvore.com) has created a system which takes thousands of sources of data, and extracts intelligence out of it to create actionable information out of that vast stream of real time data. Alan Chaney is our Chief Architect, and ran Olivetti Resaerch in the UK. That''s the unique nature of this technology.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. My first big move here, when I came to Telesign, was I felt we needed a high quality CTO. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Information Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Information Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Information Officer. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO. Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0

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