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

socalTECH

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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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

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.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

SoCal Delicious

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

socalTECH

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. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. I think that we're always looking for great people, but at Edgecast, as compared with other companies, we hire pretty slow.

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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. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? Call it facts for hire. But I don’t think so.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. The Dry Run.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

Entrepreneurs who have a startup upload their company’s information and create a startup page. We’ve integrated with AngelList, Kickstarter and CrunchBase so if you already have a profile on any of those platforms, you simply copy the URL, paste it into your Miigle account and we can automatically pull in your startup’s information.

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