SoCal CTO
JANUARY 26, 2010
I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. The company was called Red Beacon. He was seeking $500k.
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socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. He built their entire publishing and analytics platform, and spent more than four years there before he came to join us to start this. Tony Adam is an advisor, he was formerly at MySpace.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 21, 2014
Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. And the fact that we’ve all worked for a decade with Dana Kibler who is our long-time CFO and now helping run Investment Operations & Platform Services we have a truly senior & killer internal team. Mafias matter a lot to me, as well.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. 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. We have a licensing business with that.
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 18, 2013
The 3-6 month program had several hundred applications from all over the country and abroad vying for the chance of $21,000 in initial funding, office space, mentorship, and collaboration opportunities with other startups. The YouTube platform helps influencers build a massive audience but makes monetization challenging.
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