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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

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

socalTECH

We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors. Back to Kareo--what''s next for you?

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality.

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CoFoundersLab Matches Entrepreneurs Scientifically

Tech Zulu Event

In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. It provides tools like the Equity Calculator and curates and vets vendors that service startups. They took the “Match.com for entrepreneurs” model literally and hired the former CTO of Match.com to create the algorithms to help predict and recommend matches.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. You got it.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? We know it can be done.