SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Correct your course quickly. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. What's going to go wrong?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Banks won’t underwrite an individual based on qualifications like their Instagram following, of course, and given that influencers don’t typically have a consistent income or a W2 statement to showcase their earnings, they may not be able to receive a bank loan to invest in their own brand.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

When you set out to learn a new language, do you start out by writing an essay? Of course not! So why try to learn to program or write test scripts that way? Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Introduction to Perl, Learn to Read Perl.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I love cars--I grew up in SoCal, and my father was really into cars, and didn't have sons. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone. The other thing that struck me, is because it is only men, they tend to write with lots of testosterone.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. And of course we had, TheMan. Tags: SoCal Stuff. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Cliff, remind me about your background?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. There is, of course, a paid version. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. We’ll see. Enter Withings. It’s a wi-fi enabled scale that measures your weight, body fat and BMI (body mass index).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

We've made some investments here and there, and are now building a team, and making a lot of investments in SoCal tech companies. Of course, not all VCs are like that, and I've started some good relationships with them, but others are complete a**holes. After we sold it to that public company, I founded HashtagOne.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA. It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. Of course, there’s always lots of question of the specifics – did non-participants care less? –

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Of course, you will want to figure out a bit more about the specifics of what this developer needs to know vs. can learn. Of course, you are looking for something a little different - a technical Cofounder. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. That’s OK.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. Do I have to write up the overview? Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Can you help me get funding?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. Do I have to write up the overview? Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Can you help me get funding?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I, of course, knew nothing about business. I was based in LA and thought there was an interesting angle there – I could be SoCal guy. I was “technical guy.” I was defined.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

TZ’s SXSW A-team, Efren Toscano and Justin Sewell, were invited to join the momentous ride alongside other tech innovators and influencers from the Socal reach to participate with Amtrak’s first ever #AmtrakLive live-tweet and AMA thread – to discuss the highly anticipated Amtrak Residency Program. Our personal favorites?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. Of course, that doesn’t help here.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Of course, if you are a good developer looking for equity-only positions in very interesting startups, please drop me a note. So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. Of course, that doesn’t help here.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Of course, those are highly suspect numbers from Feedburner. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. I have groups for Close Friends and SoCal.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. Your article is the only useful information Ive found about Engage but one thing I dont get is, what methods do you say we have to write? (in Is this error related to what Im supposed to write? Well come back to this in a moment.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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SoCal CTO

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. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. But I don’t think so.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Of course the sequence of steps is a generalization, so perhaps you’ll have to change it to fit your needs. Of course plain vanilla stuff like stripped www prefixes don’t need a log entry. Of course you need to modularize the request handler for this purpose. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

We’ve been using MongoDB as the backing store for Treasury , and over the course of two and a half months , we’ve had over 50,000 excellent Treasuries created by the Etsy community, all stored and served in MongoDB. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008.

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