CTO Hire Funding Ideas Southern California 
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 18, 2011
I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. Please let this be a lesson to everyone – founders and CTOs.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 18, 2011
I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. Please let this be a lesson to everyone – founders and CTOs.
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SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ?
SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2012
I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Where to Search for the Technical Cofounder So where might you run into the right person? Here are some ideas: In your company or other companies. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out. Here's an example of that kind of email.
socalTECH
MARCH 8, 2013
What's the idea behind the incubator? I enjoyed my time there, and it was part of the deal, but it wasn't a long term career for me. So, I set out a little bit in an ad-hoc way starting companies as ideas came to me. We are the founders of these companies, and the ideas come from our own team.
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2016
The idea of waiting, asking, and waiting for answers is gone. Subsequently, I built another, similar company, which I sold to Sun Microsystems, and then started a B2B, online exchange with my current CTO, and sold that to IFILM, which was subsequently acquired by Viacom. Our seed investors were all, Southern California based investors.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.
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