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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. 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.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

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. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

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. Emily Scherberth – Founder of Symphony PR.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

(Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.