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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

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. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Gabi Sorts & Ranks What’s Important to You | Interview With CEO Stefanie Hoffmann

Tech Zulu Event

We started thinking about new ways of interacting with social networks in November 2011. I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. The amount of data in social networks and the amount of social networks are growing with the time. Any mentors or VC’s? So, you are the founder and CEO?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

For me, FI was great for networking with Adeo and the other mentors, who are all world class successful entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the other founders in the program. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. I'm still trying to understand what this is going to mean in practice.

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Interview with Justin and Dawn Newton, Netki

socalTECH

In my case, I had a mentor at the time who helped me understand how there was a parallel between the printing press and the Renaissance, and the Internet as the next step in information and communications. From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT. What are your backgrounds?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Has convertible debt won?

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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