SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Cliff's feedback: Your idea of "Visible Networking" can help people take the "glad to meet you" networking to the next level -- "glad to know you" relationships.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Angel Blogging 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

To top this off, at the LA CTO Forum we had Mark Suster as the presenter. I really enjoy his blog and I can't wait to mix it up with him some more on the value of Hollywood money / connections. Blogging an Online Conversation At the same presentation, I told that audience that Blogging is an online conversation.

Networking 150

Networking Blogging Social Media VentureNet 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

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. 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? I like the idea.

Los Angeles 179

Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. A negative customer acquisition cost!

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

SoCal CTO

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.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

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.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Startup 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

Will had this idea about unsubscriptions, and formulating an idea around creating a way to unsubscribe people from newsletters, and he started talking to me about it. I thought the idea was in interesting, and we started talking about buying the domain Unsubscribe.com. He loved it, so the three of us threw this thing together.

Newsletter 216

Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

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.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

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. You could just outspend. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

Southern California 150

Southern California TechEmpower Technology Council Metrics 150

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.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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?

CTO Coach 28

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

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.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Marketing Startup 150

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.

Pricing 150

Pricing Acquisition Customer Custom 150

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.

eHarmony 196

eHarmony Startup Research Ideas 196

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Who in the auto industry believed Tesla, a totally electric car, was a good idea? of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. If there is something holding these big ideas back, it is not a shortage of money or even the barrier of insurmountable technical hurdles. Now they are partners. Working on it.

Technical Review 417

Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that? Like your idea of the 30-minute phone conversation too.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. Many entrepreneurs have an idea but don’t know how to monetize it. But if I had to pick (ie.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts? I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators.

Startup 225

Startup Los Angeles Social Network Twiistup 225

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.

San Diego 40

San Diego Artificial Inteligence Universal City Chief Technology Officer 40

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. I want to find people who can help me with ideas around the business model for my startup idea.

Social Media 179

Social Media Media Social Network Networking 179

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

It was a very ambitious idea, and we spent a good time around it. Second, we could pivot into something else--but we were just fresh out of ideas. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. So, I took at look at it.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

It was a very ambitious idea, and we spent a good time around it. Second, we could pivot into something else--but we were just fresh out of ideas. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. So, I took at look at it.

Flipagram 100

Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

I did a quick search and didn't find many blog posts mentioning that specific event. So, I've got no idea who's going. This also happens for Technology Council of Southern California , AITP-LA , TechBizConnection and others. I've presented there before and it's a good group. But there's no attendee list in site.

Organization 150

Organization Social Media AITP Mixergy 150

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. Whether they originate in IM, message board trheads, mail lists or blog posts - conversations can be brought together, made re-enrant and be enhanced with media.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

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. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications.

Design 225

Design Mahalo Social Network Email 225

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

—Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people.

Capital 40

Capital San Diego Invest USC 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I thought to myself, “OK, they were willing to F me when they thought I had no idea what I was talking about. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. Now that I do they’re willing to accommodate?

Venture Capital 405

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. I'm sure other folks have ideas on this topic. For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. So the key question is: How can I leverage my network?

Networking 183

Networking Help Startup Blogging 183

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

It’s generally a good idea to go through each of these line items to try to better understand what’s involved, especially for the ones that are bigger or that don’t seem to line up with your understanding of complexity. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Communicating with Developers … coming soon.'

Develop 280

Develop Development CTO Coach CTO Hire 280

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

We thought to ourselves, this would be a great idea to try out on our own. The site is right now in beta, and we have a team of product managers, a CTO, putting together the fully functional site, integrating messaging, scheduling, and booking, and checkout. I loved it, the dogs got socialization and were in a social environment.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164