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ISSA-LA 4th Annual Information Security Summit

SoCal Tech Calendar

Speakers include Alan Paller, Director of Research, SANS; David Hallstrom, Security and Privacy Underwriting Director CNA; Chris Coffey, Executive Coach; David Marcus Director, Security Research McAfee® Labs; Ira Winkler President, Internet Security Advisors Group; Marc Maiffret, Chief Technology Officer eEye; and Tim Wilson, Editor, Dark Reading.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. CTO Knowledge and Skill I personally believe that the best CTOs will have a technical/developer background. Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines.

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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. For me, if I can help you within a couple hours Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions , I’m happy to do that and I don’t expect compensation or equity for that.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO. But as a CEO you can’t rely solely on this information.

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Leveraging Social Media tools/ techniques for greater personal effectiveness

SoCal Tech Calendar

Featuring presentations and panel discussion by experts on Linked-in, Facebook, and other internal and external social media tools.

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Bootstrapping an Agile Team

SoCal Tech Calendar

Please join LA Scrum Club and Rally Software for a special evening on Monday, February 9th with local Agile luminaries: Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation, Scott Downey, ScrumMaster at MySpace, and George Schlitz, Principal Coach at Big Visible Solutions.At

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Silicon Beach Fest | Panels, Hackathons, and Much More!

Tech Zulu Event

Ken Chung, Viddy , CTO. Darren Rush, Pose , CTO. The first ever Silicon Beach Hackathon will commence at 6pm at Cross Campus featuring CTO coaches from some of the top companies in LA. Jason Nazar, DocStoc , CEO / Co-Founder. David Travers, Rustic Canyon Partners , Partner. Register Here.