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Reflections on 2016: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. This year's fest has expanded to included panels on how to grow your startup internationally, maintain your company culture, manage developers in multiple countries, and reach mainstream audiences using TV advertising combined with digital.

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Startup 360-Performance Review Result – Improved Time Management - Finding Founder Time

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I quantified the relative priority of this responsibility as follows: Desire 12 least desirable for CTO to perform. J = External Technical Company Voice. H = Technology Partners Integration. B = New Technology Evaluation. For instance, in the above charts, task F represents “Manage Backend Finance System.”

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Interview with Michael Dubin, Dollar Shave Club

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The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. What's your background, and how did the company start?

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. 7) I loved the AOL disk “sculpture” you kept in your office at Citrix Online. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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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. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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Nearly every company faces its crisis moments and only through the inspiration , focus and dedication of the leadership can you motivate teams to dig in deep and come out the other side stronger. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week. ON LEADERSHIP.

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