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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. Chief Legal Officer.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. Chief Legal Officer.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. All the IT work in most startups is done by a college intern, or the owners son.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms. African ICT Achiever Awards – OVERALL WINNER (Annex.13).

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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Interview with Dipanshu Sharma, Kadonk

socalTECH

We found that software wasn't being bought by the team members and product leaders who needed it, but was being bought by CIOs in large corporations. Anders and I own a multitude of patents at Nokia--I have 11 at Nokia--and we were inventing technology all the time. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process.

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