SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? I understand his frustration. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools. There's lots of breadth and opportunity here, and some of the things we're doing are horizontal platform plays. Instead, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. EMC's a big investor in one company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors. So, we put something together, and put in some money, and literally the next day I was out to breakfast with Josh Roth, the former CTO of Rent.com and NTI Group, and Josh was also looking for something to do. Jamie, thanks. We raised $2.1M

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors. Back to Kareo--what''s next for you?

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. That's a huge capital savings per employee. Plus, we've hired a new CTO and CRO to help grow the tech and business side. What's your product, and what is it used for? That's a huge step.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. In B-to-B marketing, it ends up that there were people at GE Capital doing the same jobs at GE Healthcare. I organically built the company, and didn't have any outside venture money.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

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. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. Hiring is difficult no matter where you are.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. . © Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Venture Capital.

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