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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: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. What is Postie?

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APRIL 24, 2019

Anyone who hires anyone, or has ever looked for a jobs knows how important a resume is. The second part of the platform addresses other aspects of recruitment, including prequalification, and the other is around engagement, where we've just launched a LinkedIn plug-in that's an engagement tool. It's all objective data.

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MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful. The remaining 20 percent are independent film-makers.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. Lawyers on the platform love the experience. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. The hard part, is getting in front of those people at the right time.

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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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MARCH 8, 2013

Each of those dimensions really overwhelms existing platforms, whether that's a relational database or business intelligence tools. There's lots of breadth and opportunity here, and some of the things we're doing are horizontal platform plays. Instead, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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MARCH 21, 2013

We've now putting more focus on technology, and we have a new CTO, new engineering leads, have rebuilt our platform on Ruby on Rails, and we're now putting more emphasis on technology. Debra Domeyer: I've got a good CTO, who knows the industry well, and is well networked. So, we haven't had that much trouble. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

Parenting has always required a village of support, and we consider our platform to be that village. We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts. The biggest transition for us, was taking on a co-founder, our CTO, who has the really intensive tech background.

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JUNE 9, 2014

We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

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MARCH 14, 2011

My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. He had the technology background, who I had initially hired and who I brought on as my co-founder, and who runs the technical side of the team. Are venues finding this useful?

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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. 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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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. What is Tradesparq? Grow, grow, grow.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

So, we put something together, and put in some money, and literally the next day I was out to breakfast with Josh Roth, the former CTO of Rent.com and NTI Group, and Josh was also looking for something to do. The only way to deal with it is to unsubscribe when you receive a message, which takes time and energy. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. We've just got a couple more things we need to do with our mold to build our components, and we have a contract manufacturer in Moorpark building things for us in the U.S. What's the next step for you?

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MAY 2, 2017

He's the former CTO at Stocktwits, and he did the analysis and found out a lot of stuff. After we launched our first, paid pilot, we had 100 percent adoption of the platform, which is pretty impressive. What we've done a lot is really focused on hiring. How's the startup funded? Andrew Bermudez: It's kind of funny.

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MARCH 26, 2014

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. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California.

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JUNE 30, 2016

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. From the team perspective, I've also aged�I'm not a young buck anymore, I'm 47 this year, so we've hired the best and empowered the best to build a team.

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MAY 5, 2011

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? How do we make that happen?

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