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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. What is LAGbook? We’re a team of 5.

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MAY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based Acclaim Games , a developer of casual and social networking games, has been acquired by Mountain View-based Playdom , Playdom said Tuesday evening. Playdom said the acquisition would also give it access to the game development talent in Southern California. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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MARCH 4, 2010

MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro, and Aber Whitcomb are taking the reins at a casual and social gaming venture called MindJolt, which announced its funding Wednesday. Digiaro was former Head of Monetization and a co-founder at SlingShot Labs, and Whitcomb was formerly co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at MySpace.

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MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Find out who is good.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. I am ( Michael Piermont ) co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer amSTATZ. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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MARCH 24, 2011

CrowdGather said Scherzay joins from Elexity Systems, where he was co-founder and CTO. Elexity was behind the DentalSenders.com patient communications systems which was acquired by Futuredontics. The firm also said that Scherzay has served at Alcatel-Lucent, Clarent, and Spirent Communications.

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MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear. They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more.

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Have you tested what you can without development? Ask a few CTO type people. Is it big data?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Have you tested what you can without development? Ask a few CTO type people. Is it big data?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. Blackline / Therese Tucker - Tucker was CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and knows her customers--finance folks at enterprise firms--well.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? What is Onecubicle? How are you backed?

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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. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative. Disruptive. We get it! Here’s why.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

The startup has come up with an app now fully integrated with the giant social network and can be used to comment ,like, tag, browse through events, statuses, comments or swipe through videos as you rank them relevant or unwanted without leaving Facebook. I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. So why Gabi?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

How excited am I likely to be when I see a plan for a new generation of buggy whip, or another me-too social network? This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. Where's the service now?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Example here: [link].

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Then, I built another site called Stormserve.com, one of the top 700 sites on Alexa, and then also worked with AOL in technology, doing remnant traffic optimization. Our CTO, Josh MacAdam, worked at my previous company in 2001/2002, and built a company called Auctionwagon, which was later acquired by a company in San Diego.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. From there the user promotes their access to their social networks through our easy social sharing, and others can come to their public profile and request a huddle.

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

There are more than enough meet-ups and networking events; we’ve got plenty of examples of successes in the area; and there are plenty of startups to jump to in case of a startup failure. Ben actually didn't address the issue raised by Will that there is definitely a shortage of really good developers, engineers, etc.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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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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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. And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap. However, I’m always doing this part-time.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Christopher Brereton is one of the founders and lead guru of PictureHealing , a company that develops community, awareness and support through photo sharing on iPhones. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We help clients deal with new marketing realities like constant change (which often requires repositioning) and the "online/offline marketing grid" (which lets you extend reach essentially for free using social media). We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . He is a frequent public speaker.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. A developer should find out: What are the different types of users? What do they do? TV Coverage?

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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. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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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. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. Develop your business plan. Developer.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable.

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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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