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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. How long has company been around? What is Tradesparq?

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JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C. Stay Tuned.

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MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Gregg Champion: OneCubicle.com is a social business network for people on their first, second, and third jobs.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. It needs to be funded to be successful. Is it big data?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The difference between Mingly and other companies, is we're event driven--it's all driven from a to-do list, essentially action-based. It also generated search alerts--like a Google alert, for mentions of that person's name, company, and also keywords. I started my first company in 1996, when I was in high school. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2010

I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. I help internet companies make money. I usually.just focus on revenue.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. It needs to be funded to be successful. Is it big data?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. From there the user promotes their access to their social networks through our easy social sharing, and others can come to their public profile and request a huddle.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on). willing to go work for startup companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

The company recently raised $70M in funding to further expand its app and team, from such impressive investors as Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe.

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Flipagram Social Network Networking Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress. Ship a minimum product now.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO. My first company I founded in college as an undergrad, Animebooks.com, and I sold that a few years ago. What's the idea behind Quub?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

The company--which was founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschorn and Karine Nissim Hirschorn --is the latest company to come out of Science, Inc., We spoke to Aaron about the company. How did the company come about? the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

The company--which was founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschhorn and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn--is the latest company to come out of Science, Inc., We spoke to Aaron about the company. How did the company come about? the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

.&# And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the total market size for any company was at maximum 100 million potential users. It has to do with the future of social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress. Ship a minimum product now.

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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 CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress. Ship a minimum product now.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). Everyone joined back at Coloft at 9:00 AM the following morning and worked hard throughout the day. Rob Maigret.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company? It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. Who are you targeting with this -- buyers at companies?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. But I don’t think so.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. On the other hand, I meet plenty of people who complain bitterly about corporate politics—sometimes even in the companies they run.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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