Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. On sales I often talk about “ Why Buy Anything, Why Buy Now, Why Buy Me ” as a tool to think about a sales process. Improving startup productivity ? What is a founder to do?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. Most CEOs fancy their own product skills and like to weigh in on priorities. CEOs often meddle in products and dev teams hate it.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). That funding was geared towards development of our product.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. He went out and found a developer and built a product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. It also has to be said that bad apples on teams bring down productive even if that person is individually a superstar. We tell startup stories.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. That’s why I often say The role of VC is “chief psychologist.” Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2013

” In an early trial of MailLift, Granite MedSystems reached out to potential customers that had ignored all previous sales campaigns. Entrepreneurs and mentors travel from various parts around the world to take part in the 500 Startups accelerator program. MailLift is solving real business problems.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Strategic decision makers need to see the data, in addition to marketing and sales. Be sure to get multiple views of insights and implications from advisors that you trust.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The further along the product is the better — because it shows commitment and the skills to execute. They focus on quality and experience.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

Big publishers are using that to arm their sales forces, and figuring out what advertisers to go after and what to pitch. I met my co-founder and CTO, Tom, there, and worked on a bunch of projects together. Gabe Gottlieb: We''ve got a ton of new features coming out, and we''re really focused on executing and evolving the product.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

He is also an advisor to multiple startups and regular speaker at conferences like SMX, SXSW Interactive, and PubCon. His firm works to infuse projects with the management, social and production assistance needed to break away from the pack. Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We just recently brought in a CFO, a CTO, and also brought our technology team in house, so we are positioned to move our product forward, and grow and hire sales people in all of these different cities. One of them is serving as an advisor, and the other will be joining our board.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. It's all about leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. It is really working. And improve.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

Who is the sales person? If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Heat coach, Eric Spoelstra adapted to what the Spurs were doing because their initial game plan was not working. Who has the business mindset?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background. What’s the short version?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Later he posted about his experience in Challenges of Startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! From your core first hires and building a board of advisors to raising angel and seed capital, team and community makes a world of difference. Rob Maigret.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

We've also hired a tremendous set of experience career counselors, who have had colorful or substantial careers, to supply services and products to our students. Those include how-to on resumes, aptitude tests, videos, coaching seminars, and more of that nature. However, they're more job related than internship related.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day. We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He formerly served as Director of Product Management for Vocus (VOCS), a global PR and marketing technology provider, where he drove product platform strategy and roadmap execution for a variety of small business products including PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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