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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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You often hear about people talking about how being with kids makes you present in the moment, and understand the things in life that are important to us. I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. What's your background, how did you start the company?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. The CEO had 60-page Powerpoint presentations analyzing every micro detail of the business.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? That was a really short timeframe, but we were able to pull it off, and my sister and I actually went to present for him. Both have been great mentors ever since.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. Assigns tasks.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. The 10 startups presented a mix of innovation for consumers and enterprise with some sure to please twists. After the presentations were revealed, the crowd started to place their bets on their favorites.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

What we found is that there was no present solution to do this. We will need to keep on figuring out how to educate our consumer. We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros. How can they go to the movies? Entertainment.

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