Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2014

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Look for ability to direct, as well as act.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. If my CTO would have given me his update much detail would have been lost in translation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Look for ability to direct, as well as act.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2011

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Look for ability to direct, as well as act.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In all environments, the move to incompetence often occurs when competent technical people try to step into management or executive positions, for which they have no aptitude, interest, or training. Practice and training are critical. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Look for ability to direct, as well as act.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter.

News 172

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

That's great training for the startup world. My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

In the corporate space, these tools have quite an implication in that most training organizations get displaced for knowledge transfer as content gets created by end-users/learners instead of by the training organization.

Web 2.0 150

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

We were just launching one of our previous startups, VidRoll, working on video training and video advertising, we started seeing all of the problems that the video and general ad industry was facing. Our CTO, James Young, was at Zynga, and was an early engineer that launched Farmville. How did you get involved with Blockchain?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

We finished with a focus on our radio show, Tech News , which is on the leading news station, KNX1070 in LA (a CBS Radio station) and hosted by our CTO, Jeremy Anticouni. Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

We've had a lot of advisors along the way, in the financial and technology realm, which has helped us with everything. The biggest transition for us, was taking on a co-founder, our CTO, who has the really intensive tech background. Many of those have been our clients from University Sitters.

Demand 100

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We just recently brought in a CFO, a CTO, and also brought our technology team in house, so we are positioned to move our product forward, and grow and hire sales people in all of these different cities. We just added a level of technology for them, on top of their valet operations.

Networking 100

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sure, there are roles like CTO or CIO, but the input and decision making process has remained fairly static. With the trend to higher technology needs and the youth who are involved in the development of new technology, it is no longer unusual to walk into a board meeting and see a CTO in his early 40s. Today’s boardroom.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. Our CTO is from the USC Insitute of Creative Technologies. They were mid-skills jobs, and involved getting people into union jobs, which would pay really well.

Help 100

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. It felt like a bad time share presentation.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. Fourth, is all the friends we've made. We've learned the most from our peers during the program.

Startup 242

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? I also brought in a CTO, and brough in a head of product, who is helping to put together our own internal CRM, so that we can be more effective and efficient at discovering viral content before it becomes viral.

Media 235

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

There’s a bit of training required to cover things like roles, alignment, how things work. Big Impact Certainly, it’s way easier to build some online training around all of this than to build a performance support solution that helps people set goals and plans, and setups up personal and social accountability.

Satisfaction 167

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Google has a “Conversion University” with a TON of great training materials to get you up and running. Speakers included: John Shiple, CTO, Ultralive www.linkedin.com/in/johnshiple. Avinash Kaushik is THE MAN when it comes to Google Analytics. Head over to his blog and check out the books he’s written on the subject: [link] b.)

Google 68

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Director of Business Development, WellnessFXZak is fascinated by the cross section of technology, experience design and health. Co-founder, CTO, Molnari, Inc.Dezso is the co-founder and CTO of Molnari, Inc., Zak Holdsworth / @zakholdsworth. He received his J.D. Dezso Molnar / @DezsoM.

Technical Advisors 89

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We use LinkedIn, gather testimonials, and provide some training through instructional videos, multiple choice tests. The site is right now in beta, and we have a team of product managers, a CTO, putting together the fully functional site, integrating messaging, scheduling, and booking, and checkout. There are several layers of that.

Technical Review 164

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We use LinkedIn, gather testimonials, and provide some training through instructional videos, multiple choice tests. The site is right now in beta, and we have a team of product managers, a CTO, putting together the fully functional site, integrating messaging, scheduling, and booking, and checkout. There are several layers of that.

Technical Review 160

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

If you have a good idea, a good marketplace with certain characteristics, every company needs technology, every company needs finance, sales, marketing, and operations--that's the hard part. That would have a profound effect on training and opportunities in America for students. READ MORE>>.

Startup 223

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Players are trained and disciplined to react accordingly and make quick decisions in a blink of an eye that would most benefit the team. Who has the business mindset? Who is the sales person?

Startup 94

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We get the right people in, and trained very quickly, and then have them out there working. We also have a director of curriculum and CTO, which as enlarged the user experience on the technical team. The fact is, the test prep business is a nice first business. But, that's also why we are in software.

Software Review 178

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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. If they don’t have a call center already with trained sales reps answering calls, they’re probably not a good fit.”. I think these personal traits are what reunited us; even more so than our vision for RingRevenue.

Marketing 209

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

But my aspiration in college was “to get a good job.&# In 1990 that’s what I was trained to want to do – impress my parents and their friends. I cleared hundreds. In college I threw keg parties and again cleared hundres of dollars.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Matt Miller is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of CareerBliss.com – an online career community that helps everyone find happiness in the workplace.

Los Angeles 78

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We do lots of training, integration, and comarketing, and they're our number one customer--we want to make sure their 155 people are absolutely successful, to help us drive market growth. The third thing is we want to really support Skytron, our value added distributor. It's a great time for that, because there's lots of talent out there.

Startup 113

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

It's a comprehensive program with national sales training, HTML emails, a very cool interactive Flash landing page about the 8 ways to save, brochure and presentation for the sales people, extending reach via social media, etc. Not one of these ways is low rates. It launches November 16.

Marketing 150

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Dec 26, 2009). Developer. Here’s the video (each talk is 7 minutes long): Video: AngelConf 2010.

Startup 191

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Delegate and automate.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. The future is a computer vision world, from autonomous vehicles to robotics to security, training, education and entertainment. we were sold on the concept immediately.

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