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JANUARY 9, 2018

According to j2, it has named Harmeet Singh as President of Cloud Services; Steve Horowitz as President of Ziff Davis; and Joey Fortuna as Chief Technology Officer. Fortuna has been at Ziff Davis since 2011, and also served at Vindico, Quigo, and Pseudo.

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Chief Technology Officer Yahoo Los Angeles Services 138

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Snell was previously Chief Software Architect and CTO of the firm, a position he moved to in January of 2011. The firm did not disclose full financials, but did say the quarter was its best on record, and that the year is its eighth consecutive year of growth since inception. READ MORE>>.

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CTO Hire Networking Los Angeles Software 164

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Patent and Trademark Office shows that patents No. 8,019,289; 8,073,400; 8,073,401; and 8,078,119 were all issued to the company between September and December of 2011. All four patents name Oleksandr Gorbachov -- the firm's CTO -- as the inventor. The firm was represented by Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker in the filings.

Patents 140

Patents Report Startup Technology 140

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2014

Light was co-founded by Dr. Rajiv Laroia, who was previously the CTO of Flarion Technologies--whose base technology became LTE. Laroia was a VP at Qualcomm from 2006 until 2011. Jacobs joins the company''s board as part of the funding. Flarion had been acquired by Qualcomm in 2006 for $805M. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 14, 2011

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 -- MIT CC Forum - Online Personal Data Tracking: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide. Dave Gross, CEO, Connexity, LLC Frank Gerstenberger, VP, Product Management, BlueCava Brian Fox, Founder and CTO, Virtual World Computing Rick Tico, Bank of the West, will be the moderator. See [link] (more)

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APRIL 1, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- Organic vs. Strategic Growth: Why, When and How? Panelists: Steve Chopp (CFO) - Pharmavite; Lee Smith (GC/Chief Administrator) - Guitar Center; Bob Steenberge (VP/CTO), Teledyne Technologies. Companies typically look for growth in one of two ways. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. If you look at our web site, there is Charles McColgan, who is the CTO; Forrest Hobbs, who is VP of Sales; Terry Somers, who is VP of Network Services; Max Powers, who is VP of Client Services; the list goes on and on. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011 -- EFactor presents: 7 Steps to a Successful Startup. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, will also give a presentation on tips and tricks of starting your own business. Are you an entrepreneur? Do you have a great idea? Do you want to transform it into a successful startup? See [link] (more)

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TechEmpower Startup Tips Writing 100

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JUNE 17, 2016

ElNaggar was most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at CBS Interactive; he co-founded Sapho with fellow CBS Interactive alum Peter Yared, who was CBSi's CTO and CIO. ElNaggar was in Redpoint's LA offices from 2005 until 2011, and had stints on the boards of Machinima and Hark, among other companies.

Redpoint 100

Redpoint CIO Venture Capital Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Fortunately our CTO doesn''t have that problem. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Grow, grow, grow.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder.

Startup 150

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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.

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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.

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Examples Startup Course Networking 323

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. Examples in My Life & Work.

Startup 319

Startup Organization Entrepreneur Blogging 319

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011. Mathew Brian (Chief Creative Officer) is also based in Columbus, OH, and is behind the strong branding effort of Huddlewoo. Zach Ferres (Chief Technology Officer) has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

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JUNE 30, 2016

This was her pain point, back in our early days in 2011, and at that time, social was starting to become big. Subsequently, I built another, similar company, which I sold to Sun Microsystems, and then started a B2B, online exchange with my current CTO, and sold that to IFILM, which was subsequently acquired by Viacom.

El Segundo 169

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

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. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder, Mobclix.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

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. Co-founded in 2011 by Sina Sohangir and Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GraphDive raised over $1 million in initial funding.

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Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. They took the “Match.com for entrepreneurs” model literally and hired the former CTO of Match.com to create the algorithms to help predict and recommend matches. Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen.

Entrepreneur 87

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Co-founder and CEO Matt Ehrlichman and CTO and co-founder Eric Schleicher sat down to talk to us about the new startup, which is split between San Diego and Seattle. Matt sold his last startup, Thriva, to Active Network, and was part of the team that build up Active Network until its successful IPO in 2011. What exactly is Porch?

Startup 133

Startup Guide CTO Hire Organization 133

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

We started thinking about new ways of interacting with social networks in November 2011. I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. Gabi is nearly eight months old. The idea was getting mature and by end of June we had the first version. So, you are the founder and CEO?

Social Network 89

Social Network Startup CTO Coach Social Media 89

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Co-founder, CTO, Molnari, Inc.Dezso is the co-founder and CTO of Molnari, Inc., In 2011 he was selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He received his J.D. in Transnational Business Practice from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento CA, and the University of Salzburg in Austria. Dezso Molnar / @DezsoM.

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Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2012

According Mike Mettler at its June 2011 launch the technology is simple , “You just hold a credit card up to the phone, and card.io automatically reads the card information using the phone’s camera…” PayPal is not only acquiring card.io’s technology. technology to develop their own applications.

Mobile 40

Mobile Course Software Development Platform 40

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

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. We understand this whole effort was actually backed by Sir Richard Branson? Scott Ferreira: Yes, that's correct.

Startup 239

Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Laura Trice , M.D.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78