socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based electric car developer Faraday Future , even after dramatically scaling back its ambitious plans, appears to be circling the drain--losing three executives, including its CFO, CTO, and head of its manufacturing line. In addition, Faraday Future said it had "terminated immediately" the employment of CTO Ulrich Kranz.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

" Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder Do you have dollars to pay for development? Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder AskBob: Where do I find developer cofounder?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. Formal vs. Informal Advisors In many cases, you can get a couple coffee or beer meetings with advisors without ever formally engaging them as an advisor. Here’s the other aspect that both Tony and I preach: get help.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 27, 2010

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and in Startup CTO or Developer. This is somewhat the heart of what a CTO does. You have to determine in-house vs. outside development and what parts of the problem each person will do. Do not hire a CTO at this point.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2009

Irvine-based Local.com , a developer of local search sites and business directories, has hired on a new Chief Technology Officer, Michael Plonski. The firm said that it snagged Plonski from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where he was SVP/Chief Information Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Digital.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

What's new now is that the site allows you to sign up and provide your Twitter and LinkedIn information. You can partially control your interests via the Subscription page as shown below: This will change over time based on your LinkedIn and twitter activity. Those aspects existed before and it does a good job of finding great content.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. Dave Fink: I was one of the original partners at Sciences, and Jonathan was CTO of the e-commerce staff. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right. What is Postie? What is a print cloud?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Anyone who hires anyone, or has ever looked for a jobs knows how important a resume is. The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent. That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

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). In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Who will do that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. Chief Information Officer. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel).

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

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. I think that we're always looking for great people, but at Edgecast, as compared with other companies, we hire pretty slow. We're in the domain of hiring relatively technical people, gearheads.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Co-founder and CEO Matt Ehrlichman and CTO and co-founder Eric Schleicher sat down to talk to us about the new startup, which is split between San Diego and Seattle. Matt sold his last startup, Thriva, to Active Network, and was part of the team that build up Active Network until its successful IPO in 2011.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

Key early figures include CTO Doug Palmer, a pioneer in the development of video-over-IP technology who also worked at San Diego’s Linkabit and HNC Software, and chief engineer David Eames, one of HNC’s original staff scientists and an expert in neural networks and parallel computing applications.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

There's a volume of data, plenty of it, including information coming from sensor networks, machine-generated stuff, and lots of unstructured data such as MRIs, X-rays, tweets, and everything else, which everyone is trying to make sense of. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. Chief Information Officer. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

It's been such an informal economy in this area, and we're trying to turn it into a formal economy, and really engender professionalism in this so parents can depend on us. We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts. Are your sitters W2 or contract employees?

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore (www.bitvore.com) has created a system which takes thousands of sources of data, and extracts intelligence out of it to create actionable information out of that vast stream of real time data. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. event I did last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. More information comes out.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. And we wanted a head of global marketing. It’s more convenient for both sides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. Chief Information Officer. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

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. Let information flow up but direct your staff and execute through hierarchy.” But overriding sales leadership is as destructive as overriding product management.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You are constantly faced with decisions and there is always incomplete information. You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We''re a one stop shop for clinical and financial management of their practice, including a cloud-based electronic health records solution, letting them manage all of their clinical information, and moving those paper forms to electronic form. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

Let me go back and do my classic search for "eHarmony of" startup and find a few examples to use: People to Projects (Managers) People to Jobs (Hiring Managers) Students to Tutors Each of these involve matching people to people (I’ve stayed away from content matching in these examples). What do I mean by this?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. If you do not break it down into small pieces, its hard to make progress with part-time resources, freelancers, etc. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Users who seek out these second screen apps and opportunities will be rewarded with bonus content, alternate storylines, deeper character analysis, more information, retail opportunities, games, promotions, prizes and whatever else the producers come up with simply by opening the app and swiping, touching or moving along with the show as it airs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We then aggregate that information to teachers, for the entire classroom. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra. So, we give basic instruction and then signal teachers on where to better focus their classroom time. It's at a more granular level.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. Because it's software, because it's centralized, and because the information is in a database, people can start doing reporting, and there's more automation on the simple things. How big is the company now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

And for some strange reason entrepreneurs didn’t share this information. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. That’s normal.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network. I read the first three pieces of information and was trying to think of how I could help him. For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola: We've got seven people full time, and all our development is offshore, our CTO is onshore, and we have people doing graphical design locally plus others helping part time. There was nothing out there in the market which would be the personal assistant, or the personal finance tool to do expense reports.

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