SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder. We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her. I've written before about having an Initial Conversation with a Potential CTO. Startup and Founder Backgrounds This is a cold email.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Tony has a Ph.D. He is a frequent speaker at trade and industry events.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup 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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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. First Principles. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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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. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Refer a friend?

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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. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Refer a friend?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Friday, September 9, 2016 -- LA CTO Forum. The LA CTO Forum has grown over the past 15 years into an amazing, highly-vetted group with more than 350 members. Most are CTOs in smaller organizations, but some have a different title, especially when they are in larger organizations. Email Tony Karrer (tony.karrer@aggregage.com).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. " Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2013

For this year's first article, we share the advice of Tony Karrer , Founder and CTO of TechEmpower , Founder and CTO of Aggregage and organizer of the LA CTO Forum and Startup Specialist Network , two local groups focused on startups. Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2012

Cloud-based email delivery startup SendGrid , one of the companies out of the TechStars accelerator, said this week that it is accelerating hiring at the firm, including at the firm's Anaheim location. SendGrid is based in Boulder, Colorado. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2013

He believed we had a weakness with his CTO. The CTO had at-will employment with no notice period. I proposed that the CEO sit down with the CTO and walk him through the legal obligation of the company, which is zero notice, paying for all days worked and all accrued vacation time, and allowing vesting through that date.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I usually judge people’s reactions not by the comments section of my post (where people are a little bit more polite so you get selective bias) but by the private emails I get. I usually encourage people to think about titles like, “Founder & CTO&# or “Founder & VP Marketing.&#. Naturally some didn’t.

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SoCal CTO

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. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

” And then you can build email lists and market video content to your fans in the same way Gilt Groupe markets its clothes to its end consumers, making it an insanely scalable business. And I’m excited to say that we’ve poached a major technologist from Silicon Valley who will move down to Los Angeles join as CTO in January.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Customer support emails require both accurate information and a professional, helpful tone. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one. Are you a founder or CEO or head of product?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. Poppycock.

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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. Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Are they dismissable?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Email Address Almost every startup wants and needs email as a means of notifying users. In the meantime, I will say that most startups will want to have an email address for users. do not provide access to the email address. But I’ll still capture email and establish a separate password.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Ryan was the CEO and founder of DoneRight, which was sold to tree.com in 2009, and also served as CTO at Overture Services. The startup allows users to compose a message which can be delivered via email and fax to elected officials.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). They tell you the other option is to provide your email and password. Email Address. The other problem is that only Facebook currently allows us to grab an email address. It grabs your email.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2010

Our Insights and Opinions article today is from Tony Karrer , CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, who gives some hints, tips, and observations about the increasing difficulty of finding technical talent in Los Angeles. And funny enough, I wrote this post this morning and had it scheduled to come out the next morning.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. What lots of people do instead, is they use the spam button or delete button in their email platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2017

Airspace said its tools provide real-time email and app tracking, in addition to voice integration with Alexa. The company's co-founders are CEO Nick Bulcao, and CTO Ryan Rusnak. According to Airspace, the new integration allows users to track, trace, and review their shipments using voice commands on Alexa. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Such a format is convenient for traditional search methods, where specific fields can be queried directly. Unstructured Data, as the name suggests, lacks a clear structure.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has acquired NetDocuments , a provider of cloud-based document management, email management, and collaboration software for law firms and corporate legal and compliance customers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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. It’s more convenient for both sides. The next major decision for us was whether to launch in one major city or many at once.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

To top this off, at the LA CTO Forum we had Mark Suster as the presenter. The same Friday as the LA CTO Forum with Mark Suster, I presented to a group of about 40-50 mostly service providers on use of social media to build your reputation and grow your business. I've not found any great groups either. And I'll post about it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

How did you get into the technology business? My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The founder, Ryan Scott, was co-founder and CTO of email marketing firm NetCreations, which had an IPO in 1999; Scott is also an angel investor, and lists himself on LinkedIn as an investor in Tesla Motors, Mahalo, Dipity, and a number of other startups.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. Update from original - just saw a follow-up post by Ben Kuo - Southern California Technology Jobs Surge. I’m seeing and hearing that it’s becoming tough finding good developers again, at least here in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

However Gmail is only private email conversations. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. We've built a tool like Gmail, for all of your public conversations, as a Chrome extension witin Gmail.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

If the answer isn’t an unqualified yes, then email us to discuss a technical review. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Bottom line, if you’re a CEO or founder, ask yourself these questions: Am I getting my money’s worth from my development team? Do I really know what’s going on under the hood?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup.

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