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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Was there consumer demand? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. No brainer. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

socalTECH

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). What is Beatshare? The video and picture are from our service.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Our CTO, Vladamir, the head of our engineering and core development team, went and formed his own garage R&D company. David Seimer of Seimer and Associates is not an angel, but a boutique venture capitalist and technology investor, and he and Eric Manlunas had shared previous investments.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. This was one of the largest, most demanding IT infrastructures ever built, and Tim conquered it; a guy, who less than 2 years prior, was hired to be our recruiter.

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Entrepreneur Startup Share Depends on Contribution

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO?

Startup 101
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Splitting Startup Equity for Your Piece of the Pie

Startup Professionals Musings

Ideas are not intellectual property, until they have been converted into patents, trade secrets, trademarks, or copyrights. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO?

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