SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

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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. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. Most people think they can do product design.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2011

His basic point was: If someone, including me, tells you something isn’t a great idea and there’s no market for it there are only two acceptable responses. " Today I had two conversations with early stage startups (see Free CTO Consulting ). " One was an enterprise software product. Beware of Mentors.

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Customer Custom CTO Coach Startup 227

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

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. How will you be taking this to market? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Often this ties to marketing support.

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

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. How will you be taking this to market? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Often this ties to marketing support.

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2013

There are lots of "pie in the sky" projects on Kickstarter, the crowdsourcing site--with many devices that you sometimes wonder if they''re possible, or if they''ll ever get to market. We spoke with co-founder and VP of Products David Lokshin about the Los Angeles company and its Kickstarter project. How did that happen?

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Startup Examples Design Product 166

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. 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?" He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. I'm married to Mike Freehling , M&A and financial management consultant. I've known Farida for quite a while.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Their featured speakers, who range in marketing and business expertise, will lead four intimate breakout discussions. Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company. Check them out below: Tony Adam, Founder/CEO, Eventify and Visiable Factors.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

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. If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

He's the former CTO at Stocktwits, and he did the analysis and found out a lot of stuff. We've had a very small round, and it was pretty full, of between $1M and $2M around March, and we're using that to beef up our marketing and hire one more engineer. One of our four engineers is a data science guy, who used to be at Stocktwits.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. But I don’t think so. By doing the job.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. I.e., 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

While we have become more productive as a society, with the advent of computers aiding our work, physical inactivity has become a high risk factor in contributing to chronic illnesses. Today’s digital health consumer has so many choices on the market. The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day. I thought that it was incredible!

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Go-to-Market 5. What is the Rubicon Project? Be scrappy.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. Josh Allan Dykstra – Co-Founder of Strengths Doctors.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. What is the Rubicon Project? Build a SWAT team 3. Startup 3.0:

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