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. Lots of online marketing before that, but we had some great results when we were picked up by a national radio program. Marketing 2.0

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tools that it has built include Voyage, its proprietary operating system to manage properties; a concierge app to help its guests with services before, during and after stays; its front-end booking platform; and a recently launched real estate platform. “It has always lagged hotels by a wide margin.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. That results in a drastically lower marketing and PA budget for the film. That's a massive amount of money to spend on marketing.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I like to book my own travel, so I might be on Expedia or on an airplane. I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. I’ve got to imagine this makes tracking marketing spend challenging. Anything else you doing from a marketing standpoint that's working well? Again, an interesting topic to discuss.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

” Strangely, the best I’ve ever heard this exemplified is in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential - which is really a book about startups as told through kitchen stories. Writing a book will be fun. We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. They did customer pickups, the drove vans to storage facilities, the deal with booking and customer support issues – everything.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. 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.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These trusted sources are a new breed of professionals who may soon carry the new title of “information curator,” evolved from the “museum curator” role, where a domain expert filters and communicates the important elements of a past civilization or technology. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Linthicum, senior vice president at Cloud Technology Partners, is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. Dave has authored 13 books on computing, the latest of which is Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach. CTO at SOA Software. Alex earned a B.A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Plus, we have a typical, transaction based review, where after you've done your booking you can review the host and experience. There's also a similar, review of dogs, so a host can say, for examplethis dog barks a lot, so maybe you shouldn't book that dog if your neighbor complains. We try to make that transparent, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Plus, we have a typical, transaction based review, where after you've done your booking you can review the host and experience. There's also a similar, review of dogs, so a host can say, for examplethis dog barks a lot, so maybe you shouldn't book that dog if your neighbor complains. We try to make that transparent, as well.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. You can find more: My Consultancy – www.Middleshift.com My Book – www.BeIgnited.com My Media Company – www.Media2Watch.com Twitter - @vincethompson What are you working on now? Example here: [link]. The client has to win.I

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Certainly it’s important to optimize current operations, but in this age of rapidly changing demands and competitors, it’s more important change quickly as the market changes. Strategic decision makers need to see the data, in addition to marketing and sales. Your tech guys may know how to read data, but you must read the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. We sold the company when we hit $36 million in bookings and $16 million in SaaS GAAP revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. Is it book smarts? Amy Chua, a Yale professor, wrote a book about raising children the “Chinese Mother&# way. And experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Zach Ferres (Chief Technology Officer) has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15. A graduate of Ohio Northern University , Ferres built a digital marketing agency called BounceFire , which was acquired in May 2011 by a company in Phoenix, AZ. Ferres and his team moved to Arizona. What Inspired You? They are all right!

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Tyler Koblasa: Mingly is a relationship management tool, kind of a personal assistant, and keeps track of all of your contacts, from multiple sources, and aggregates that into a master address book. Whether someone is in Google address book, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, they all end up in one place.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Being tenacious without the mental flexibility to pivot based on market feedback is a disaster. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. I recently read the book eBoys about the founding of Benchmark Capital and the founding of eBay. I finally called bullshit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I booked several high-profile meetings in advance. On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the total market size for any company was at maximum 100 million potential users. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

To anyone who believes his data proves anything please do me a favor and go read The Black Swan – my favorite book of the past 5 years. In the book Taleb rails against people who use faulty models to predict risk and have self satisfied, false data arguments to convince people of their points of view.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. Therese Tucker: Every company out there closes its books every month, or usually every quarter if it's public and does financial reporting. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. What kind of companies most interest you?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

He's the former CTO at Stocktwits, and he did the analysis and found out a lot of stuff. We've had a very small round, and it was pretty full, of between $1M and $2M around March, and we're using that to beef up our marketing and hire one more engineer. One of our four engineers is a data science guy, who used to be at Stocktwits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. Tim Ferriss gave this extra emphasis in his book. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Unfortunately I was wrong.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. million members who have added over 270 million books, completely by word of mouth. He is the founder of eMinutes.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

" Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing. He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. Any sort of networking that gives more context is a plus in my book. What are you working on now?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros. Having these true believers on board and getting their help in putting something like this into market is a pretty big milestone for our team.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Head over to his blog and check out the books he’s written on the subject: [link] b.) Speakers included: John Shiple, CTO, Ultralive www.linkedin.com/in/johnshiple. Erica Forrette, Online Marketing / E-commerce with a stealth startup (moderator) www.linkedin.com/in/ericaforrette. Here’s a link: [link] c.)

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

There are lots of solutions for consumers and B2C sellers, but the B2B market has largely been neglected. It's crazy--the market is twice the size of the consumer market--consumers spend around 9 trillion dollars a year in the U.S.--but Now we're out in the market, we tarking with companies to get them excited about this.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO. Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. That was my second startup, a publishing company.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea.

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