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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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Eight Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg

InfoChachkie

" I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. Mark's move to Silicon Valley was no doubt predicated on his belief that Facebook would obtain capital and recruit top-talent more efficiently. " [Tweet this quote].

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AvantStay, a platform for kitting out — and then renting out — high-end vacation rental homes, raises $160M

TechCrunch LA

The company saw revenues grow tenfold in the last two years and its total number of properties balloon to over 1,000, and now it will use the new funding for expansion, specifically adding more properties to its platform; and to continue developing its technology as it expands into more aspects of the property rentals business.

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Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April

SoCal CTO

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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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Shivani Siroya – CEO and Founder of InVenture.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

He hired his co-founder and CTO Adam LeVasseur who set out to build systems to allow you to see all of your storage items in a beautiful app but also to build tech for logistics, driver management, customer service, billing and so forth. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes.