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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Jon Kraft: Our mission is to help kids discover and pursue their passions in life. I actually convinced Girish to help me with that other project, and worked together. One of our goals, is to help kids understand their unique strengths, and find things that they really can be passionate about. Tell me about your new company?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. CTO Knowledge and Skill I personally believe that the best CTOs will have a technical/developer background. Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2019

San Diego-based BlueNalu , a developer of cellular technology being applied to the aquaculture and sustainable seafood industry, said it is expanding in San Diego, with a move to a larger research facility. According to the company, the move will help it on its efforts to commercialize its technology.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. What is your app all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Launched in beta July last year in Oakland, San Francisco, Dealflicks is a price line for movie tickets and gives movie tickets and concessions for up to 60% off to help theaters get butts in their seats. Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Stock Trader/Researcher at E-Trade, Zecco Trading, and William O’neil.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2010

In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. And don’t confuse having a CTO with getting an Technology Advisor.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. Having help narrowing choices is what its going to be about going forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

” But I went back to the office and talked with Stuart Lander & David Lapter and said, “no prizes for guessing which job Ethan’s going to take.” MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. The company was called Red Beacon.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Strenk: Yes, we launched PROOF on Indiegogo – thanks for helping us blow way past our initial goal, selling out of our first batch in 7 days! Bob Lansdorp, Milo Sensors’ CTO and co-founder, transitioned from academic research with a background in mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and a Ph.D

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day.

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JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

We sat down with Peter--who is now working directly for LA''s technology mayor Eric Garcetti as Chief Innovation Technology Officer--to understand how a technology insider think he can help tap into the rich technology industry here and help use technology to improve the life of everyday citizens.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. HV: Our current focus is helping people get up and move more, and that’s why we created Movn.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

PrecisionHawk has operated drones under a FAA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement since last year, and sees business opportunities for beyond-line-of-sight flights in aerial mapping of large agribusiness fields, forests, mining operations, public utilities, and other rural operations.

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JUNE 9, 2014

We have a team of people and technology which scours the Internet, and looks for videos we like and think would be a perfect fit for our Youtube channels. We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. Those two pieces helped feed each other. more) READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. Talk about the technology behind your operations here?

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. What are you working on now?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. Talk about the technology behind your operations here?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. This offline event was successful in helping Kaviani find his own cofounder, Culin Tate, and a new venture.

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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. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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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. So, very early on was our project-Voxel Research, how our name got created and mashed up to Voxearch. What''s going to get you through the next cut?

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JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO. What's the idea behind Quub?

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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. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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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. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Aaron Crayford: Before Rippol, I was the CEO and CTO of Vusion, a company that provided HD video streaming. Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

I then spent a few years at IBM as their Chief Strategy Officer in their identity management area. I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. We''re using state of the art tools.

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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. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2.

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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. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine.

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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. We've had this team together for awhile, which helps us to go fast.

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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.

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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. What type of user research were you able to gain from the experience?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization. This can help juice your SEO. Here's a ballpark derived from various research studies on the click through rate for positions 1-10 in Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Some data like those in the studies I mentioned above might help influence our thinking but the answer is, in the end, subjective. But I’m not naive enough to think that I am factually right. I think it is an unknowable topic for which we each have our own observations and points-of-view. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. He is a frequent public speaker.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Knowing that now will help you greatly in your dark moments to know that you’re not the only one struggling. Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. Back-channeling is also very effective in helping your process.

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