socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

We caught up with Founding Director Bruce Huang , to learn more about what the UCLA Extension is trying to do with its program. We've assembled a team of CTOs, CIOs, and tech companies who can come in, share their experiences, and help us to define what kind of experience they need from employees. However, it's very difficult.

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UCLA Education CIO Examples 159

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

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Startup Invest CTO Hire Cloud Computing 97

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In this #StartupsEverywhere , series, we talked with Aaron Slodov, Jennifer Stapleton, and Steve McHale, leaders in the Cleveland startup ecosystem about why there's more of a draw to downtown. Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time.

Startup 70

Startup Platform CIO Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. Each client ends up looking like their own P&L. READ MORE>>.

Cloud Computing 217

Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The original notion of the company started around the idea of sender controlled communications. Within that, we started to focus early on around the opportunity of applying this in the enterprise, and subsequently, healthcare. Within that, when we started to canvas the verticals, healthcare bubbled up to the top very quickly.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

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CTO Hire Funding Cloud Computing CIO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Don’t start with finding what you want – having a specific end in mind assumes you have knowledge of the future. Too much reliance on automated filtering may result in missing key issues and rehashing the problems framed up in the past. Keep up on the details, but don’t miss the big picture. Seek a variety of analysis tools.

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CTO Coach CIO Startup Competition 59

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

I know that dates me a bit, but it also shows that I have been hanging around startups for a long time. At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. by Louis V.

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IBM IBM CIO Startup 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A great business often starts with one person, but it doesn’t end there. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup. So what if you’re already a mid-stage startup.

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Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company. He is also an advisor to multiple startups and regular speaker at conferences like SMX, SXSW Interactive, and PubCon. Founder’s Table, CEO, CTO, CIO, COO, and President, CallFire.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. The key here is to provide visibility to everyone along the process--not just at the start, when you put it on the wall, or email the project plan to everyone.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Alex Kazerani.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92