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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

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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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. Kaiser joined forces with Bruce Schwartz (Founder and CTO) to write an entirely new code language they called Interactive Television Markup Language (ITVML). Coincident.TV

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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. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. Call it facts for hire. Hiring The Right Candidate. call to arms.

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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. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write. Kanye West.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Ive hired some of my best people straight out of college, taxi cab drivers and have even stolen coffee makers from Starbucks. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

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. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA.