TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

He said the company has been growing in double-digits month over month, had zero churn and produced five times as much food this year versus the same time period in 2021. “We The new funding will be used to expand logistics and new channels beyond Whole Foods that Deerman was not able to divulge right now.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. You can also look at some data around this in Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data at some specific numbers at different stages Where I Come Out Again, like Fred Wilson says, early employee equity is more art than science.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 7, 2010

I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? That's my bet.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

AvantStay’s basic premise is based around kitting out and then handling the rentals for high-end homes as a viable alternative, or even improvement on, the experience that a typical guest might have had in a five-star hotel; and it has harnessed technology in aid of that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20% of the total, and partition the total equity based on each cofounder’s correlation to each variable. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

So far, Binary Bubbles has signed up five YouTubers — with a collective fan base of one million followers — and it is looking for more influencers with a following that sits between 10,000 and one million fans. Popbase users can watch content with a virtual avatar of the YouTube creator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20% of the total, and partition the total equity based on each co-founder’s correlation to each variable. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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SoCal CTO

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. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

It's amazing how much LA tech has grown since we first started Silicon Beach Fest five years ago. When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. Someone just thanked me last night, saying he got two clients at Silicon Beach Fest and was able to help several others.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

GE Healthcare, a unit of Boston-based industrial giant General Electric , recognized some limits on MRI scanners like its own, and started collaborating with Stanford University physicians more than five years ago on next-generation MRI technology to better diagnose people with heart disease. market, the companies say.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

Chris Johnson and his partner Tarek Pertew were once startup guys who founded a software company in New York, but within one year they lost their CTO three times. UnCubed has partnered with Coloft, MuckerLab and Carbon Five. Necessity is the mother of invention. It appeared that recruiting was a bigger problem to solve.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

That is why it is not uncommon to see big enterprise sales people making high six figure – or even seven figure – salaries or commissions, while a neophyte coder might be in the low five figure range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20% of the total, and partition the total equity based on each co-founder’s correlation to each variable. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

That happens in just a five minute process. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. They''re actually initial consultations, ranging from divorce to DUI. You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. Michael Chasin: Yes, we''re doing transactions.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

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. He spent the past 8 years as a producer and writer, and has a phenomenal Rolodex in the entertainment business. Where's the service now? That's how we make our money.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

Our CTO, James Young, was at Zynga, and was an early engineer that launched Farmville. I have been in adtech for about five years now, and had previous startups in streaming media, with VidRoll, and now MetaX and adChain. Ken Brook: We mainly consist of a team of engineers with a background in gaming, finance, and adtech.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve?

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We spoke with Mike Outmesguine , CEO and Alan DeRossett , CTO of the company, and how their roots in do-it-yourself, "Maker" projects is key to their entry into the prize competition. The challenge is to make one that can detect several medical conditions, all in one unit, with a weight limit of five pounds, some kind of hand held device.

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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. An interesting stat was that the large chain stores buy a tuxedo for around $90 and rent it out at around $200 for up to five years. A prototype that can be used for testing and validation is another win.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. Collectively, we now have a billion and a half views, and we have nearly six million subscribers to our channels, and 450 million views a month.

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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. So Alice, Mark and Nick are going to hire ten people over the next five (now four) weeks. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

—Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people. But Brooks said Intel Capital should focus its investments on disruptive technologies that lie just beyond Intel’s core business strategy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We have services in every country, and we even run through five different traffic routes to every country, which enables us to have extremely high delivery rates, and enterprise grade reliability. 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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SoCal CTO

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. &# The classic framework for analyzing a firm’s strategic position is Michael Porter’s Five Forces.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Todd introduced me to Andrew, and Andrew is now our CTO. We''re now in five categories, and we''re looking into computers and video games next. He''s the tech wizard behind this, and managed the databases and infrastructure and all the different types of tools we use to manage our consumer and product data.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? But generally I'm going to favor being open. "We are doing something in mobile advertising.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened.

Technical Review 223

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20 percent of the total, and partition the total equity based on each co-founder’s correlation to each variable. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

Equity 104

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. The Top Five Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Learn About IP Law What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company? But generally I'm going to favor being open. "We are doing something in mobile advertising.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

An arbitrary, but perhaps rational equity factoring approach would be to assign each of these five items as 20% of the total, and allocate equity based on each partner’s relative contribution to each. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? The next big challenge for a multi-partner startup is the allocation of roles.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Built from the ground up using technologies leveraged by Internet giants like Facebook, and the feedback of hundreds of customers over a five-year period, the new CallFire is a cross-datacenter SaaS platform with no single point of failure. The new interface is easy to use and is accessible from anywhere using almost any device.”.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

John Tomich: We've been around for five years. Our Chief Architect is from Scopus, an early CRM firm from the early 90's--he's a Silicon Valley, software, CTO type of guy. We're all technology guys in the way, and were not in the apparel space. What's the background on Onestop Internet and what you do?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. we were sold on the concept immediately. We funded the seed round, the A round, the B round, C round, D round and E round. Jamie is truly a visionary and a focused executioner.

Startup 247

Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I was the Chief Markteing Officer, the marketing guy, and scaled that to millions of users. Our CTO, Amy Yeh, was VP of Technology at Fox Sports, and built products that have scaled to millions of people. We've really reached the masses with our projects. Ryan has built products that millions have played.

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