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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

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. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

However Gmail is only private email conversations. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. Both have been great mentors ever since. Was that investment how you decided to drop out of school to launch the service?

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. broadcast, and much more all in a cloud based service. firm's CTO, Jamie MacLennan, directed the development of Microsoft's SQL Server Analysis Services, pioneering Microsoft's work in. Tony Karrer, who runs the LA CTO.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

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 Feel free to email or drop a tweet with any questions about the journey, no matter what stage you’re in. Rob Maigret.