Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sure, there are roles like CTO or CIO, but the input and decision making process has remained fairly static. Technology is author of the boardroom revolution. Many of today’s younger generations, as with previous generations have become eager to make a difference through advancements in technology. Today’s boardroom.

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Technology CTO Hire Conference Education 40

Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

News: - the Rubicon Project Acquires Fox Audience Network for Technology and Team - Closes $18M Growth Financing - Company Reaches Profitability; Ahead of Plan With $100M Revenue - John Carnahan Joins Company as Chief Technology Officer Press Release: [link]

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Los Angeles LA Tech 101: The Company We Keep A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA Los Angeles Startup Networking Here are some guides to many of the different networking events around startups, technology, etc.:

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 188

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? READ MORE>>.

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Marina Del Rey Dollar Shave Club Beverly Hills Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

TechZulu will be onsite streaming the most inspiring and innovative executives in Wearable, IOWT, government, gaming, health and fitness, and lifestyle industries to this year’s conference. Philippe Kahn, CEO, Fullpower Technologies / MotionX. Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics. Florian Gschwandtner, CEO and Co-Founder, Runtastic.

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Venture Capital Conference Design Technology 110

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

SVP at Cloud Technology Partners. Linthicum, senior vice president at Cloud Technology Partners, is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

SoCal CTO

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. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. It's a great talk.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

He’s one of those rare people that after every meeting you have with him you feel like you have much more insight into the future of the technology industry than before your conversation began. We kept meeting at conferences over the next 18 months and he kept showing me what he was working on.

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CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

USC’s Marshall School of Business will host the second annual Silicon Beach Awards (SBAs), a $50,000 venture competition focused on innovation in technology & entertainment. Silicon Beach @ USC will feature game-changers and thought leaders from Hollywood studios, technology startups, and academia. eventbrite.com/ 2.

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USC Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Conference 159

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

TechZulu is pleased to announce that we will be streaming live from the Biz2Beach conference presented by CallFire this Friday August 19 at 2pm PST. For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. So I was surprised at the sheer volumes of decisions that had to be made when I became a startup CEO.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”. It also is a burgeoning sector.

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

We had been building technology around a publisher interface, and starting seeing the same things from customers, who wanted to understand what was happening on their site, what their competition was doing, and what advertisers were doing. We decided to build technology to specifically address this problem.

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Advertising Startup CTO Coach Study 153

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. They regularly speaks at conferences, used to work at Google, and have other similarly impressive aspects to their background.

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CTO Coach Mentor Startup Technical Advisors 259

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company. I tell the story of how I first met Derek.

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Networking Startup CTO Coach Email 366

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. Vijesh Mehta, CallFire’s CTO, discussed some of the new features and changes to the CallFire UI. MATTHEW AREVALO.

Social Media 71

Social Media Mobile SEO Media 71

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Behind the scenes, DNS technology is translating that Url to an IP address, so you don't have to worry about it. What Justin figured out, was that same, DNS technology can be used to route to blockchain wallet addresses. I was SVP of Technology, and Dawn ran support and operations, and later billing and marketing.

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Startup IP CTO Coach Allegis 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum. Details coming soon!)

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Technology has given us the ability to connect with others like never before, but personal access still remains uncommon. Zach Ferres (Chief Technology Officer) has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15. Based in Columbus, Ohio and community management in Washington, D.C, We caught up with the CEO William Zell.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

As traditional and digital media companies strive to build out a worldwide marketplace for their content, services and products, the event will answer how fundraising, investment and new technologies impacttheir strategies. Last July the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit was one of the best conferences of the year.

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Venture Capital Media Capital Steamboat Ventures 68

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. The technology is really what sets us apart from our competitors, who are mostly resellers of someone else's technology.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

As traditional and digital media companies strive to build out a worldwide marketplace for their content, services and products, the event will answer how fundraising, investment and new technologies impacttheir strategies. Last July the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit was one of the best conferences of the year.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Media Capital Steamboat Ventures 40

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. VentureNet, Perfect Pitch You and I have both been on the board of the technology council. What motivates you to do that?

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. After Office 2.0 A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Colin Kelley, the CTO of RingRevenue , left a comment in my last post about the need to “ mask interrupts &# in order to get work done. PhoneTag uses a combination of technology and human translation and thus has a much better accuracy rate. So I often try to stay off of email during the day.

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We started with Wi-Fi based technology, using 802.11. I just went out to a VC conference out in New York, and what I'll say is -- it was just too damn easy. There were companies at the VC conference starving for money, but I think we could have raised $20M like nothing. Right now we're at 31 different hospitals.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. AlwaysOn has some of the best conferences I've ever been to. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He is a frequent public speaker. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). Rick Heitzmann.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

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. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Say you want some code that does X. Want to be Mercenary?

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 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 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. And then I took a stand. Productivity. Twittering.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. Marketing Muscle.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In a world where 90% of communications is non-verbal imagine what is lost on conference calls. And from all the office chatter come norms and beliefs. There is a core that exists in human connectedness that no amount of technology can replace. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335