socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Weve started with dark web monitoring, and we are adding credit monitoring to help our users better control their digital identity. With both people search and identity protection functionality, we provide the most comprehensive people intelligence to help our users know more. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Startup CIO Southern California 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their classic book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.”

Organization 132

Organization CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 132

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2013

A wondrous place designed for kids to learn that Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math are not only interconnected, but fun to boot. Starting today , Two Bit Circus’ Kickstarter Campaign goes live and gladly invites you to help make this truly amazing concept become a reality. starting in Spring of 2014.

High Tech 108

High Tech Entertainment Education Startup 108

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. Finally, we hooked up with AngelList, Naval Ravikant really helped us out, which is how we found Google Ventures.

Media 267

Media Education Google Startup 267

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. Once you know the space, China really helps entrepreneurs. Promoting global trade really helps China, so they really help companies like ours. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

Southern California 170

Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. We have some great mentors now.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. everything.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. Maybe it helps that I love controversy and pushing the boundaries so people felt it was OK for them to do it as well. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers? he asked.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help. Software is set to be transformative in the space of education.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact.

Funding 40

Funding Competition Chief Technology Officer San Diego 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 24, 2015

The community around the Guides not only contributes to the content, but will also help shape what new Guides should be made. Entrepreneurship Startups Accelerator Education Entrepreneurs Experience Founders free learning Guides Kris Chinosorn learning Guides mentormob online instruction vince leung'

Guide 40

Guide CTO Coach Education Content 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. That's actually been helpful to direct sitters to us.

Demand 100

Demand CTO Coach Screening CTO Hire 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The company was founded by Bong Koh, a former EIR at Prism VentureWorks and venture capitalist at Advanced Technology Ventures; he also co-founded ibeatyou. Obviously, Prism is a great example.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.” Partial acquisition.

Acquisition 88

Acquisition CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 88

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The equity round will help it built more compelling technology to analyze social data to provide deep user analytics, actionable insights and personalized offers for its clients. Using social data shared via Facebook Connect, GraphDive can infer a user’s age, education, marital status and now even income, with 70% to 95% accuracy.

Equity 65

Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

They outline the following framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their new book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.” Partial acquisition.

CTO Hire 91

CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development Resource 91

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. The reason I am doing this is because this is the way I can have the biggest impact on helping entrepreneurship become more successful.”. I wanted to give back to my community in the D.C. “The titled “Co-Founders Wanted.”

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

Software Review 107

Software Review Entrepreneur CTO Hire Outsource Development 107

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

These individuals would have undoubtedly helped the company avoid some of its intellectual property and employee compensation lawsuits. " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. The typical startup cannot afford a massive ad campaign to educate users as to its value proposition.

Startup 268

Startup Tips CTO Coach Technical Review 268

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? Scott Ferreira: MySocialCloud helps user manage their online life, through three tools. First off, what is MySocialCloud? Scott Ferreira: Yes, that's correct.

Startup 239

Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. Margin in Mystery An Angel investor that used to be on a startup CEO roundtable with me, always had a lot of great phrases that would help startups.

eHarmony 196

eHarmony Startup Research Ideas 196

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

Software Review 103

Software Review Equity CTO Hire Outsource Development 103

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. It brings in Work History and Education. I'll explore a few of the social interactions that help with viral growth.

Examples 331

Examples Startup Course Networking 331

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread. It brings in Work History and Education. I'll explore a few of the social interactions that help with viral growth.

Examples 323

Examples Startup Course Networking 323

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. He believes if they can help build up good companies; they can also help the local economy, noting that the first class has created 100 new local jobs. And build great business they have.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

B, the school’s principal asking me to come into her office. I was surprised to learn that the reason she asked me to come see her was to help the school with a problem with sexting, Facebook/Myspace and cyber-bullying. In a couple of weeks we held our first seminar educating parents on how to keep their kids safe online.

Google 115

Google .Net Santa Barbara Email 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

Software Review 96

Software Review CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. We want to help them, and will. Thank you @eminutes. . Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. We will need to keep on figuring out how to educate our consumer. Entertainment.

Startup 91

Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Couldn’t be helped. But how do you convince millions of people that need to be educated that they have a document management problems to upload their documents in the first place? In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Alon Schwartz

JANUARY 18, 2009

The event was greatly received and I believe was very helpful. Having the right partner can greatly help at challenging times like equity splits. If you’re the CEO and you’re looking for a partner CTO (sound familiar) you’re not just checking him out, he is checking you as well. What is a Partnership?

Startup 58

Startup Equity Tips Commerce 58

Alon Schwartz

JANUARY 18, 2009

The event was greatly received and I believe was very helpful. Having the right partner can greatly help at challenging times like equity splits. If you’re the CEO and you’re looking for a partner CTO (sound familiar) you’re not just checking him out, he is checking you as well.

Startup 56

Startup Equity Tips Commerce 56