Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Even so, ads only work if people can see them, and today’s ad formats need to be visible on any device.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 7, 2010

I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. We need to deliver on mobile devices in the future. That's my bet.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. Send across any graphic designs you currently have. Founder : Ummm.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Does it need to playback on mobile devices? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics. Kate Drane, Design, Tech & Hardware Lead, Indiegogo. Phil Easter, Director of Mobile Apps, American Airlines. Casper De Clercq, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Adam Adelman, CEO and Co-Founder, MightyCast. Det Ansinn, Founder, BrickSimple. Drew Austin, Co-Founder, Augmate.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Try to identify developers that are flexible in their design. web & mobile development resources to find and hire a developer. cleverua.com – outsourced web & mobile app development based in the Ukraine, Ask for Pavlo. arcticempire.ca – mobile app development & code review based in Canada, Ask for Josh.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? You will find firms that are design/interface heavy and light on development. Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. have you seen the offices?)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

BlogTalkRadio Buddy Media Clickable Cloverhill Enterprises Covestor Domdex Global Bay Mobile Tech Zoo Games Invite Media Kinetic Trading Strategies Mashery Mimeo oneforty OrcaOne OrganizedWisdom Recognia Selerity Business Insider Standout Jobs StockTwits TheLadders Ticketfly TLists TubeMogul TweetDeck Zoomino ?Vaultive

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Waymo’s foray into Los Angeles is designed to give the company insight into driving conditions there and how its AV technology might someday be used. The road ahead for Waymo, AV engineering and mobility, with Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov. But for now, the company is in mapping and assessment mode.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. How did this start?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. GetMeRated , a mobile app where teens and twentysomethings find new friends through photos and chat. RocksBox , a new discovery and sales channel for designer fashion jewelry.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Built from the ground up using technologies leveraged by Internet giants like Facebook, and the feedback of hundreds of customers over a five-year period, the new CallFire is a cross-datacenter SaaS platform with no single point of failure. The new interface is easy to use and is accessible from anywhere using almost any device.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Krishna drives the advertising and marketing strategy at Mobclix, the only real-time bidding mobile ad exchange, enabling over 35 ad networks to reach targeted inventory across over 15,000 mobile apps. Krishna will speak about the future of mobile advertising, and how to maximize its potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. Ethan recruited a great team of people to help build this proposition including Lisa Robinson running marketing and Rahul Thathoo as CTO who have been working tirelessly for the past year.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

They may wonder if it can be built technically, but I (or other CTOs) can answer that question without building any code. Cases Where a Mockup is Not Enough There are a few cases where mockups or clickable prototypes may not be enough: Usability, interaction design, etc. It won because of interface, ease of use.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We''re laser focused on small medical practices.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

I was kind of naive about it, and it ended up being my wife--who is a world class designer--those two guys, and myself. About a week later, our CTO was in Japan, and calls me, saying he had a crazy idea for a music, app, and he'd tell me about it when he got back. We thought we could build some really cool stuff.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 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 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. Your remote control has two buttons. didn’t think so.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. Palomino has 12 years experience in the mobile industry and the firm’s’ creative mind. We are getting very excited just designing them! We found ourselves working with each other in our spare time, dreaming up new products. What’s next on Gabi plate?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. They are also often looking for more cost effective ways to advertise to mobile users. Mobile, social and video are changing consumer behavior and advertising as we know it. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

With the rapid trajectory of tablet devices purchased in the past few years, media and mobile companies are scrambling to create new apps for them. Many companies are developing second screen technology, but few have come close to what Coincident.TV WOW, right? has accomplished.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

In order for the lights to activate, there are four points of input: Crowd Density – Infrared technology tracks and displays the collective audience movement. Audio Reactive Control – Achieved by analyzing the audio frequencies of the performance. Gesture – Concertgoers’ gestures directly control the centerpiece.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. Through the algorithm, Miigle would introduce him or her to someone who is interested in mobile and travel but has a business background. Back then we invested very little in design. We also buffed up our technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO. Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. We started working in that direction, and here we are two years later.

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