Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. If my CTO would have given me his update much detail would have been lost in translation.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

A number of years ago, myself and some of my colleagues in the entertainment industry developed a nonprofit workplace in Hollywood. We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry.

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MARCH 1, 2013

That's great training for the startup world. My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Ken Brook: MetaX is a development studio, where we build Blockchain-based protocols and decentralized applications. We were just launching one of our previous startups, VidRoll, working on video training and video advertising, we started seeing all of the problems that the video and general ad industry was facing. What is MetaX?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sure, there are roles like CTO or CIO, but the input and decision making process has remained fairly static. With the trend to higher technology needs and the youth who are involved in the development of new technology, it is no longer unusual to walk into a board meeting and see a CTO in his early 40s.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things? The biggest transition for us, was taking on a co-founder, our CTO, who has the really intensive tech background. Our company started as University Sitters, and we pivoted it to this new company, Helpr.

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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. Develop your business plan. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Dec 26, 2009). You can bootstrap your way into existence. Lessons at the end.).

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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. Delegate and automate. And be generous.

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JUNE 9, 2014

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

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. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. There are actually lots of great people, though we're relatively unconnected on the East side, which is frustrating.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Bushnell is currently co-founder and chief game designer for Anti-Aging Games. Gianelle Veis , manager of prize development at X PRIZE Foundation. Director of Business Development, WellnessFXZak is fascinated by the cross section of technology, experience design and health. Zak Holdsworth / @zakholdsworth.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

There’s a bit of training required to cover things like roles, alignment, how things work. Big Impact Certainly, it’s way easier to build some online training around all of this than to build a performance support solution that helps people set goals and plans, and setups up personal and social accountability.

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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. We were the first to develop solution purpose-built for this industry and with a lot of hard work and a lot of feedback, we’ve gotten things mostly right. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. We get the right people in, and trained very quickly, and then have them out there working. So, lots of our features have been developed from our internal team.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Robin Richards: After selling Notification Technology to Blackboard, we kind of sat around and said--where is there a marketplace, that can do some good, really needs to be developed using technology, and where there is no major player involved. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. But my aspiration in college was “to get a good job.&# In 1990 that’s what I was trained to want to do – impress my parents and their friends. I cleared hundreds. In college I threw keg parties and again cleared hundres of dollars.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. landing pages, etc. Not one of these ways is low rates. It launches November 16.

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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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We do lots of training, integration, and comarketing, and they're our number one customer--we want to make sure their 155 people are absolutely successful, to help us drive market growth.

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