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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. How did this start?

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. If my CTO would have given me his update much detail would have been lost in translation.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

socalTECH

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. That's actually been helpful to direct sitters to us.

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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

SoCal CTO

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. However, you understand that you can talk to them about it and possibly pay for their help if you want to know more. Instead, they were trying to share and help. It felt like a bad time share presentation.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We have some great mentors now. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. Those two pieces helped feed each other. I began as an advisor, and then started spending a week, then two, then three.

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7 Startup Lessons from NBA Finals

Tech Zulu Event

If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Players are trained and disciplined to react accordingly and make quick decisions in a blink of an eye that would most benefit the team. Now the defensive help can’t leave the shooters.

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