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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Interview with Gabe Grifoni, Rufus Labs

socalTECH

After college, I didn't go into engineer, I went into the marketing and entertainment side. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing. How did you go from marketing and advertising to a hardware startup? Plus, we've hired a new CTO and CRO to help grow the tech and business side.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

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 is also hiring. Stay tuned for the upcoming Ming.ly public beta launch and join our beta list at [link] Ming.ly