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 also blog at [link] and you can find me on twitter: @gilbola. Of course, it's probably harder to find these folks. I have shied away from taking favorites in my blog or anywhere public.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. The SoCal outfit has tapped influencers to become limited partners in their fund, giving them the opportunity to develop equitable relationships with the brands requesting their promotion.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that? Just posted a blog about that: [link] I've been struggling a little with making the numbers work out for some social media activity.

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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? Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I, of course, knew nothing about business. When I decided to start blogging again (I had done so as an entrepreneur) I thought about how to brand myself. I was based in LA and thought there was an interesting angle there – I could be SoCal guy. If you ever want a quick way to my blog, btw, you can just type that.

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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. Jason looks at the issues around "sunk cost."

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! A huge thanks goes out to the Social Media ClubHouse (SMCH3) for helping put this all together.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

For anyone who reads this blog, if you are looking for particular kind of web developers in Los Angeles, feel free to contact me. Of course, this is a bit more complicated given the issues raised in Startup CTO or Developer , but maybe leave that aside for now. Especially for an early-stage startup?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

When we interview potential developers, it’s amazing to me how many can’t answer questions that every student in a sophomore level computer science course should be able to answer. And, of course, if you have the Founder Developer Gap, then you might want to consider getting help. Also, there are a lot of C players out there.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

Case in point the recent HBR blog post: The Social Media Bubble , by Umair Haque where he advances the following hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connecting us as much as we think it is. For your closest set of contacts, maybe things haven’t changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. That’s OK.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Of course, that doesn’t help here. I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. Don’t put yourself in this situation.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Of course, if you are a good developer looking for equity-only positions in very interesting startups, please drop me a note. Unless you are a co-founder of the startup, a developer is probably not going to do all that well working on sweat equity alone.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Of course, that doesn’t help here. I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. Don’t put yourself in this situation.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? ThreadsML , a data fomrat for persistent conversations.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

TZ’s SXSW A-team, Efren Toscano and Justin Sewell, were invited to join the momentous ride alongside other tech innovators and influencers from the Socal reach to participate with Amtrak’s first ever #AmtrakLive live-tweet and AMA thread – to discuss the highly anticipated Amtrak Residency Program. Our personal favorites?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Tom Peters No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging. But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. This is that post.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Of course, it will be a lot more than that because if you were able to do it for that term, then you'll get a lot of long tail searches. Blog to build credibility and create original content. Here's a ballpark derived from various research studies on the click through rate for positions 1-10 in Google. That's pretty low.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I love blog conversations. " Of course, that’s a rare combination. Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? They tend to have the knack for architecture.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you wont have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider. Creating Your Application Start by going to JanRain Engage and signing in. Well come back to this in a moment.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. Making use of variables like $isCrawler, $crawlerName, etc.,

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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. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 There are others as well.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , June 21, 2010 Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Guess what?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

This is something I’ve explored several times already in my blog: Startup Founder Developer Gap Startup CTO or Developer Technical Advisors – Why Every Startup Needs Them Bottom line - for most startups, what they really need is a technical advisor or part-time CTO along with some development resources.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Of course, response time is quite a bit more complex than this. Of course we need to combine number of concurrent users with what the users are doing in order to have more of a picture of what this means. TV Coverage?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Kanye West. Let's recap. Building a Better Product.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

This doesnt mean that you cant try, of course. You should of course change the numbers "127.0.0.1" You should of course change "SpammerRobot" to the actual user agent you want to block. Im just saying this so that youdont get your hopes too high about what you can actually achieve. Order Deny,AllowDeny from 127.0.0.1

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. Silly, right?

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