SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. How do you get press and the blogosphere talking about your product?

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Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

If you look at our web site, there is Charles McColgan, who is the CTO; Forrest Hobbs, who is VP of Sales; Terry Somers, who is VP of Network Services; Max Powers, who is VP of Client Services; the list goes on and on. My first big move here, when I came to Telesign, was I felt we needed a high quality CTO. It's been fantastic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

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Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress. Marty Zwilling.

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Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. RT @OEInnovation #SBF why I live in #LA: intersection of #beach #tech #entrepreneur #entertainment. & National and local press coverage so far is listed below. & #celebrity to pull off anything!

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Put Serious Effort Into Your Pre-Game I find most entrepreneurs put all of their effort into creating a perfect deck and then asking existing investors which VCs to talk with but they put almost no effort into the real “pre-game” work.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Course 238

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Richard Rosenblatt. He is a frequent public speaker. Bambi Francisco.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

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. Which button do you press? Yes, even bootstrappers.

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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. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

These are the skills I look for in entrepreneurs and leaders. It is the very fabric of what I believe forms the entrepreneur DNA. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? ON SUCCESS. How do we measure success?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. “Transition from CEO&# Entrepreneurs need to ask themselves how they can best serve the company to move it forward. Additionally, entrepreneurs get tired. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. you are our new IT manager.&#

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

In my case, I had a mentor at the time who helped me understand how there was a parallel between the printing press and the Renaissance, and the Internet as the next step in information and communications. I was primarily responsible for getting the technology side pulled together when they went public.

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