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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Here are a bunch of other kinds of questions that get addressed by Startup CTOs.

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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 million

TechCrunch LA

LA saw its first big enterprise exit in recent memory with the recent acquisition of Signal Sciences for $775 million, and less than a month later a hometown startup, Britive has raised $5.4 Those cloud technologies presented new challenges for the kind of privileged access management technologies that Poghosyan had developed.

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io/LA Shuts Down

socalTECH

io/LA, in a note sent to its members last week, obtained by socalTECH, said that "unexpected things happen" in the startup world, and that it will be "sailing off into the sunset". The loss was first reported by the LA Business Journal. io/LA had only been in the space since April of last year.

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The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail

TechCrunch LA

Postie , a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. The company was founded by Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, two former principals at the startup studio and early stage investor, Science. Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for reported $1B value.

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Google spinoff Cartken and REEF Technology launch Miami’s first delivery robots

TechCrunch LA

Self-driving and robotics startup Cartken has partnered with REEF Technology, a startup that operates parking lots and neighborhood hubs, to bring self-driving delivery robots to the streets of downtown Miami. Starship Technologies CEO Lex Bayer on focus and opportunity in autonomous delivery.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

TechCrunch LA

Gates’ call is being met by startups and public companies hailing from everywhere from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, London to Los Angeles, and Berkeley to… um… Chicago. Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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Laudville Bolsters Advisory Board With Oversee.net's Chuang

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Laudville , a startup developing an online platform to help users share entertainment like movies, books, TV, and music with friends, has added Gene Chuang to its board of advisors, according to the firm. Chuang is currently Chief Technology Officer at Oversee.net,and also has served at such companies as Yahoo!