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. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. After a considerable amount of market research, we created the SureToMeet system that’s now used by organizations around the country. I've been following both of your blogs for a while.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies. For anyone who reads this blog, if you are looking for particular kind of web developers in Los Angeles, feel free to contact me. It’s a pretty active, but very private network. Especially for an early-stage startup?

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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.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. This is generally how I try to organize my own views and how I try to give advice. On teams I have a framework for tech teams “ CTO vs. VP Eng ” or on sales I have “ Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars ” 5. What is a founder to do?

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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. Since we started our free site last week, we've organically grown faster than we ever thought we would.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS. Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. Really fun stuff these days.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. If you're like many people, you're having more and more public conversations, but there is no tool out there similar to Gmail which a lot of people use to organize their whole life. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Developers operate at a level and in a language that others in the organization can’t necessarily interpret and understand. Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. So, it’s often hard to know if the developer is an A, B or C player.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. Visible Networking and Online Business Networking represent the following concept: organize a convenient forum for people to discuss issues. What are some good posts that I should check out on your blog? But if I had to pick (ie.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network.

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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. 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.

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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. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Build qualified advisory board.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Abbot Kinney Venice Blog: The New West Coast Digital & Creative Hubs: Venice and Santa Monica. Thanks to students and organizer UCLA comp sci Ph.D . & #celebrity to pull off anything!

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. Based on your description, and target companies, chances are you'll be able to reach quite a few people already in those organizations. I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Build qualified advisory board.

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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. 7) I loved the AOL disk “sculpture” you kept in your office at Citrix Online. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Build qualified advisory board.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Lori Deschene – Founder of Tiny Buddha.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Build qualified advisory board.

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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). This includes contents like Videos, Photos, Blog Posts and Forum Threads. We’re a team of 5.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. equity debate.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

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! ► October (1) New Video! . A solid SWAT team is invaluable, and to me, it is essential.

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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. Keep going.

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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. Let's see why. They all engage in entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions. Community Leaders + Organizers. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. It’s why I can still be caught playing beer (and tequila) pong at 4am at the Local Response offices. Office Space. Nom nom nom.

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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! ► October (1) New Video! . No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

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! ► October (1) New Video! .

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 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! I left my CTO position at L90 (Startup 3.0) ► October (1) New Video! .

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