socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. Similarly, the LA tech scene had had hundreds of startups pop up over the past 5 years.

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Marina Del Rey Dollar Shave Club Beverly Hills Startup 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Part I of this series describes the 360-review that I conducted at a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. In order to help the Founders in this process, I asked them to identify the Dirty Dozen tasks to which they consistently allotted most of their time.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Outsource 182

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Earlier this month, Los Angeles startup Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.com) made a huge splash with its launch of a subscription, monthly delivery service for razor blades. What's your background, and how did the company start? If you look on our site, the Humble Twin is the first inventory we had.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

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. That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Lately the topic of leadership & teams has been coming up a lot in my daily life. You do a startup and decide you want somebody to step in and run the company so you can focus on technical excellence. The toughest or coolest kids in class often like somebody who is willing to stand up to them – but not cross them.

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CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363