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Startup Mentors

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I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. Do you have any suggestions for how to find a good mentor?

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Founder of RYSE UP, NearWoo Jason Crilly Passes Away

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Crilly had most recently been the CTO of RYSE UP, a startup in Los Angeles which calls itself the "American Idol for Mobile", which e co-founded with Nathan Chandra. He previously was the co-founder of NearWoo (previously known as PageWoo), a Santa Monica startup developer of mobile advertising software for local businesses.

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The Truth Behind Display Advertising: Adomic's Quest For Transparency

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What really, is happening when you place that online advertisement, and where does it go, who looks at it, and what''s really happening? All too often, those ads disappear into a maze of middlemen, and advertisers don''t really know who is seeing their ads, and why. We decided to build technology to specifically address this problem.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. There might be one or two mentors, one might be a CTO, another, a CEO.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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firm's CTO, Jamie MacLennan, directed the development of Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services, pioneering Microsoft's work in. The company has a stellar set of expert advisors in machine learning, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence--in addition to a highly technical team--which it is applying to the problem.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. And we are unbelievably proud to see the company grow from small, crappy offices above a taco shop in Venice to a production home in Culver City with 70,000 square feet and more than 50,000 individual content contributors. Danny and Ynon in a way will switch roles.

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

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He is also an advisor to multiple startups and regular speaker at conferences like SMX, SXSW Interactive, and PubCon. Krishna drives the advertising and marketing strategy at Mobclix, the only real-time bidding mobile ad exchange, enabling over 35 ad networks to reach targeted inventory across over 15,000 mobile apps.

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