TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Graphic design? UI/UX design? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies?

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

San Diego-based Proximal Data , which develops serve-side caching software for accelerating I/O access to virtualized machines, said this morning that it has raised $2M in a Series B round of funding. The firm's software works with virtualized servers to optimize access to storage to eliminate bottlenecks. The firm is led by Rory Bolt.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. And its software monitors and manages the full spectrum of the customer relationship with that product. What is it that they want to achieve and why did they buy my product.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies. But not really CTO events.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, Sansar has launched a first-of-its-kind integration with Marvelous Designer , the fashion design software by CLO Virtual Fashion Inc. used by numerous mainstream brands and independent designers. For designers, Sansar’s fashion market also represents a significant new business opportunity.

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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. They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. As a developer, certainly as a CTO, you need to account for setting those expectations appropriately.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. Relativity Space chief technology officer Jordan Noone next to one of the company’s 3-D printers.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively. Roughly half used some software on premises or in the cloud, but none of it did the trick both for the salons or their customers. Image Credits: Boulevard under a CC BY 2.0

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The former Microsoft chief technology officer is now vice chairman of TerraPower , a Bellevue, WA-based spinout of Intellectual Ventures that aims to revive commercial nuclear energy.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Do you have dollars to pay for development?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. What happens when you have a really good developer is that a gap exists where you may not ask the right questions to specify the right system, consider appropriate 3rd party technologies, etc. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. For me, if I can help you within a couple hours Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions , I’m happy to do that and I don’t expect compensation or equity for that. Here’s the other aspect that both Tony and I preach: get help. That’s great advice.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML. In fact, after a bit he gave up.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

As a creative director at a software development company, I am always looking for ways to speed up our design and development process and to include as many people and teams working on the project. These teams are usually: business, design, frontend, development, and quality assurance. Sitemap & Wire-Framing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We have have been funding agriculture technologies, water conservation, wireless electricity, aquaponics and so forth in addition to our standard investment themes in software, data, video and retail innovation.

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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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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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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). Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

But when you produce on Internet you can test your content in the same way that Silicon Valley firms test early versions of their software. Our talent includes writers, directors, actors, singers, post-production professionals, costume designers, lighting professionals, sound mixers, show runners and so on. More on this soon.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2011

" Today I had two conversations with early stage startups (see Free CTO Consulting ). " One was an enterprise software product. I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying."

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? have you seen the offices?)

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics. Kate Drane, Design, Tech & Hardware Lead, Indiegogo. Apps & Software Business Entrepreneurship Events Gadgets American Airlines glazed IndieGoGo Robert Scoble Technology Wearables' Casper De Clercq, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Adam Adelman, CEO and Co-Founder, MightyCast.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. Taher Scherzay: I''ve been an engineer since school, and a CTO for quite a number of years. I built the software on my own, initially, and brought it to market. What is Thaeres about? Talk about your background?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. CTO at SOA Software.

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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? Existing People Capabilities - what capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA do you already have access to?

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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? Existing People Capabilities - what capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA do you already have access to?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2013

Unlike those, however, one of the latest projects, ActiveReplay (www.activereplay.com) has some serious, experienced executives behind it, who have the experience in designing hardware devices--in the form of CEO Dr. Anatole Lokshin, who helped create the consumer GPS market as the CTO of Magellan Navigation. How did that happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. But your co-founder had been senior at one of the big enterprise software companies and if I remember correctly American Express had run a big pilot with you. Last time we met I didn’t have my CTO with me.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

Chris Johnson and his partner Tarek Pertew were once startup guys who founded a software company in New York, but within one year they lost their CTO three times. Talent needs often range from engineers, UX/UI designers, biz dev, marketing/pr, project managers and community managers. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

Andrew Bermudez , co-founder and CEO of Irvine-based Digsy (www.getdigsy.com) wasn't looking to build software to help commercial real estate brokers close more deals. He's the former CTO at Stocktwits, and he did the analysis and found out a lot of stuff. What is Digsy? My background is in commercial real estate.

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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. ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. The challenge, of course, partially lies in the definition of “good design&#. Good Design = Beautiful/Cool Design.

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