socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

Irvine-based >Oculus , the virtual reality google maker now owned by Facebook , has hired away high profile Google executive Mary Lou Jepsen , according to a report. Jepsen ran the Display Division of Google X, and also had been co-founder and CTO of the One Laptop Per Child. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace Music announced this morning that it has hired Dmitry Shapiro , who founded Veoh, as its new Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro will be based in Beverly Hills, and report to MySpace Music President Courtney Holt. Shapiro also served as founder of Akonix Systems.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based electric car developer Faraday Future , even after dramatically scaling back its ambitious plans, appears to be circling the drain--losing three executives, including its CFO, CTO, and head of its manufacturing line. In addition, Faraday Future said it had "terminated immediately" the employment of CTO Ulrich Kranz.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The email recounts some of the company’s recent mistakes, including prioritizing strategic projects that “distracted” the company from its core beauty business and that executives “got ahead of ourselves on hiring.”. The tech team layoffs are notable for a beauty retailer that has often described itself as a technology company.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Just weeks after Canoo took the wraps off of its electric vehicle , the Los Angeles-based startup and co-founder Stefan Krause has been accused of gender and marital discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Stefan Krause filed for divorce from Christina Krause in July 2019.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home computer and electronics help firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, reports that the firm is seeing its business grow, and has been hiring additional technicians at the company. Make It Work offers in-home computer and electronics help and repair services. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

In the early days the CEO is the jack-of-all-trades, doer-of-all, famously the “chief janitor” or coffee maker. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. Do you hire more sales people?

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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. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

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. Accounting?

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Really, what it does is it allows a small venue--anyone with less than 500 seats--to handle everything from admissions, to reporting, to reporting, to accounting, to marketing, and customer relationships. Scot Richardson: Yes, they've hired us, and we hope it's a good sign. For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

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. You''ve got to do your report every month. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. All the HR policies are completely different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

When the CEO of an early-stage startup tells me that they plan to hire a COO I’m usually not interested in the next meeting. Anyone who’s ever presented to me with these titles hears the same questions: “OK, so who does tech report to? Who does finance report to? Who does sales report to?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

But, what they could do, is if they provided a report on their progress, a weekly report or every other week, they would accumulate deal credit, which would enable them to get another deal. He's the former CTO at Stocktwits, and he did the analysis and found out a lot of stuff. What we've done a lot is really focused on hiring.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. There was nothing out there in the market which would be the personal assistant, or the personal finance tool to do expense reports. My thought was, why couldn't you do that with expense reports? Again--another place where expense reports are being turned in.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

“CallFire.com provides all the tools to mount a successful mobile communications campaign to create customer engagement using SMS keywords and short codes, increases sales with voice alerts, and tracking call volume using textable phone numbers and the CallFire dashboard,” said Blake Johnston, CTO of Webtrix, which beta tested the new app.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. And it launched this author’s career and taught me everything I know about sales, marketing, hiring, firing, fund raising and so on. It happens more than is reported.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

These new viewing habits and technology advances are giving technologists and content producers an entirely new frontier to develop when it comes to creating transmedia and second screen (tablet or smartphone) experiences for viewers. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

This works especially well if you get over 100 emails everyday, as we can then sort all incoming emails into “Meeting requests”, “Progress report”, “Budget Proposal”, etc. He then hired a personal assistant who would read his emails for him, and then sort them by projects, and hand them to him presorted. What are your backgrounds?

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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. However, I’m always doing this part-time.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. In the fourth case, the founder was getting ready to sign a very large contract, but they didn't feel they had much visibility into what was going to be delivered. They couldn't plan their business.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

► March (1) Office 2.0: ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Build a SWAT team By Frank Addante (Part 4 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Any entrepreneur, CEO or CTO should always have a development SWAT team on hand. Where's Jack Bauer?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. You got it.

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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. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see? The Dry Run.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► March (1) Office 2.0: ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Ive hired some of my best people straight out of college, taxi cab drivers and have even stolen coffee makers from Starbucks. So, find Scrappy engineers, hire them, motivate them, keep them happy and keep them challenged.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s great advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. Marketing Muscle. It’s awesome.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► March (1) Office 2.0: ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Where's Jack Bauer?

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