socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2012
Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. The big thing for us has been those connections to investors and mentors. The feedback, mentors, and connections are amazing.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. There might be one or two mentors, one might be a CTO, another, a CEO.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Assigns tasks. Already covered.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2013
He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 11, 2012
Ken Chung, Viddy , CTO. Darren Rush, Pose , CTO. The first ever Silicon Beach Hackathon will commence at 6pm at Cross Campus featuring CTO coaches from some of the top companies in LA. For all you working press out there don’t forget TechZulu and Coloft are hosting the press Hub. Register Here.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
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. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. The way we dealt with this issue is that we took each senior exec in the company (including the CFO and the CTO) and assigned them to important accounts. ” Of course I agree with this.
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