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. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

What's your product, and what is it used for? Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. Right now, the tools there are old and outdated, and mostly handheld. We're focused on a product which makes for a more efficient, safer, workplace.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

As a hiring manager, and as the former CTO of Buy.com, Navid Nobakht , Co-Founder of Recmnd.Me ([link] had a problem--how to really figure out if someone he was hiring could actually execute. The problem we're trying to solve, is one I found from in my experience as a hiring manager in the IT industry.

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CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools. We are really set up to solve those problems, and deliver the hard core, enterprise class tools and applications that people need, in order for big data to go mainstream.

Incubator 208

Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We had created a tool to let people search online for commercial real estate, then we'd have a concierge plug them into a broker, so that they could meet with a tenant or buyer. We figured out we needed some tools to monitor the performance of the agents, otherwise they'd just fall off the face of the earth. It worked well.

Sales 145

Sales Startup Email Tool 145

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We've been a recognized innovation in Southern California, and we're now ramping our development of compelling consumer products, fueled by accelerator services. As you know, Oversee is known for our traffic and traffic acquisition tools, but we're now also focusing on creating compelling, consumer products fueled by our accelerator services.

Mobile 224

Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. hours of TV / day.

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Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We caught on with the right product, at the right time. 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. You have to be able to be disruptive to existing products and services. Those two typically don't go together well.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. They are watching content on the TV or on their laptop while playing with their smartphone or tablet at the same time.

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Meredith Publishing.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188