socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. We're also funding it out of pocket.

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AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. Fund raising ? What is a founder to do? Triangulate. How to network better ?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. I also blog at [link] and you can find me on twitter: @gilbola. Or maybe not.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

.” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. Of course the naysayers are out again. If anything I’d like to fund 5 more teams and projects this ambitious.

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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. " The emotions around sunk costs run deep.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

“Getting the band back together” doesn’t stop for me with just our fund. David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog. So he went on to become the CFO of Fab through their growth years dealing with warehousing, inventory management, facilities, CAC/LTV analyses and of course fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Of course I don’t believe this argument. I’m now a VC that funds entrepreneurs. So it is with entrepreneurship. from a young age.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Every investor expects to see some traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Other people on the LAGbook Team include Josh Osemwegie (our Chief Financial Officer), Nosa Ilegbinehi (our Chief Publicity Officer), and Emmanuel Alugo (our Chief Technology Officer). We recognised her of course with her stunning profile picture. We’re a team of 5.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Today, we have Vince Leung, co-founder and operating CTO of MentorMob. By haphazardly creating a lesson plan through a loose conglomerations of videos, blog posts, tweets, and Internet cat videos. Getting accepted into the Kaplan/Techstars program was of course, huge for them. Final Takeaway.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. . Dave McClure.

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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. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. But I don’t think so.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I know that Founder’s Coop has a fund as does TechStars Seattle. Can’t list them all.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! 2: “7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race&# We were not the first to build an ad-serving technology platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Nah, of course not. If you click on no other links in this blog please read this one by David Brooks about why Amy Chua is a wimp and not a hard ass mom. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? Is it book smarts?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Venture Capital Funding 7. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Relaxing 2.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 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 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Here’s why.

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