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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. The poor guy.

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Innovation and Geography

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. Your customer aren't used to using this kind of data to drive their marketing--how are they reacting to the analytics you can provide? Where's the service now?

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere. There are over 100 different questionnaires on the website.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

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We use a recurring revenue model, where a customer pays us a few hundred dollars on average. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California. doctors in small offices.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. Ramit Varma: Jake (Neuberg), my business partner, met at UCLA's Anderson business school. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra.