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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. If anyone has ideas on how to reach into to find candidates or other ways to find good people, I would love to hear it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team? In your case, they need to be someone with a great idea who needs help fleshing it out into a product vision. Likely any successful web entrepreneur has more ideas than time. I like the idea.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Tom Humbarger had some great suggestions in his post Visible Networking with Tony Karrer – Los Angeles Social Media Starters. His other posts have similarly great ideas for twitter, LinkedIn Groups, and more. Her other suggestions around blogging, LinkedIn, twitter use pretty well align with how I think about it. It's important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The talented founder & CEO (Sean Rad) went on to create Tinder after Adly, proof that sometimes it takes the intersection of great founder + great idea + timing to produce a multi-billion outcome. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. Hey, radio.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. BUT good ideas are NOT hard to find. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? VentureNet, Perfect Pitch You and I have both been on the board of the technology council. You must be doing more than just using the application to get followers in order to make it effective. It’s that same discussion around how you are using social media.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. So we discussed his ideas several times. Or worst case your ideas can be conveyed verbally.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Where''d the idea for the company come from? However, the pull of this new idea became too strong, so we set out to start the company. He had approached me with this idea when I had just joined Bill Gross at Idealab and was starting Ubermedia. I was only months into it, and it happened we needed a CTO at the time.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. He had an idea to make it better. We then riffed on the idea of, “That’s interesting.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. Justin Wu: Last year, we talked to Media Camp about our idea, when it was at a much earlier stage. My CTO, Peter Chen, went to Stanford.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

For our pitch today, we have an interview with Taher Scherzay , founder of Thaeres (www.thaeres.com), a Los Angeles area startup developing subscription and recurring payment processing services. Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. Where did the service idea come from?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). We had over 30 pitches and classic SUW team voting that followed, resulting in the final 12 most popular ideas.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. To top this off, at the LA CTO Forum we had Mark Suster as the presenter. I've not found any great groups either. More often 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Have a rough idea of what you are looking for in terms of talent. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Have a rough idea of what you are looking for in terms of talent. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs. Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders. Great stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I first met Ethan in 2005. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He wanted to raise angel money. But to me if you’re not willing to quit and take a risk on yourself, then you’re not confident enough in your own idea and skills. I told him to quit his job first. Why should I be? Why should I be?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

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. You are the person who wants to commit but you have no idea if the other party is going to be willing to commit to you. For me, I'd use LinkedIn.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2010

Venture Capitalists, Marketing VP's, Angel Investors, and Hot Tech Startup's are just a few examples of attendees all looking to make a connection and help better the community. How about VC/Angel advice? The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) will have a spot on the floor where you can pull up a chair and have a discussion.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Eslambolchi, who had served as a LonoCloud advisor and CEO, told Caldwell he had an idea for a cybersecurity startup that would use analytic software and machine learning technology to monitor the data flowing in and out of networks for anything that looks out of the ordinary.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Below are 50 ideas for step 2. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup.

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