SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 1, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- Organic vs. Strategic Growth: Why, When and How? Strategic growth - a growth in sales accomplished through acquisition from third parties of new product lines/services (or a combination of both). Companies typically look for growth in one of two ways. See [link] (more)

Organization 100

Organization Sales Acquisition Services 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. After working as an engineer for Apple, Sun Microsystems, Marimba, and other Silicon Valley titans, Van launched four new technology companies, the latest of which is GroupPrice.com.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread.

Examples 331

Examples Startup Course Networking 331

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread.

Examples 323

Examples Startup Course Networking 323

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We've also hired another VP of Sales, brought on a new CTO, who started ZigBee, Matt Perkins, and we are going to get some headcount growth--though we're planning to keep that under 50. I think that there might be cash toward the end of 2010 or 2011, where IPOs might be reasonable.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. But I don’t think so.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175