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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. We have some great mentors now. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.

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Austin Start-up MailLift Joins 500 Startups

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” In an early trial of MailLift, Granite MedSystems reached out to potential customers that had ignored all previous sales campaigns. Entrepreneurs and mentors travel from various parts around the world to take part in the 500 Startups accelerator program. MailLift is solving real business problems.”

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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tries to expand beyond Twitter roots Blogs Im Reading Andrew Corn Barry Ritholtz Fred Wilson FT Alphaville Howard Lindzon Marc Andreessen Michelle Leder Paul Graham Paul Kedrosky Trader Mike Active Investments AdCopy AdSafe Alphacet Beacon Trust Company bit.ly Vaultive « Are Derivatives the Real Problem?

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Both Sides of the Table

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. Neither is very strategic nor in the best interest of either set of customers that VCs have (portfolio companies & LPs). David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog. Mafias matter a lot to me, as well.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. The Right Way to Lay People Off - Ben's Blog , September 21, 2010 “I’m tryin’ to right my wrongs, But it’s funny them same wrongs helped me write this song”. Kanye West. Let's recap. Want to start up in France?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

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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