SoCal CTO

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

MAY 25, 2012

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? I started playing around with a similar idea in my freshman year. He really took to the idea, and enjoyed it. Both have been great mentors ever since.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

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. Finally, I think it’s worth meeting “mentors.” In his book he talked about mavens as being those people who are connected and through whom ideas spread faster.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. We're also updating the format.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

However, on the other hand, some ideas are more sensitive than others especially in the development phase, and an entrepreneur should be careful to disclose the idea only to those in whom he/she has a reasonable level of trust and who are genuinely in a position to help the company. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. David Cohen from TechStars, someone I look up to as an entrepreneur, says that they don’t invest in ideas, but teams.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? In the startup world, being able to stick to a plan and take actions according to those plans will bring your ideas and visions into reality. Ideas are a dime a dozen.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly We had over 30 pitches and classic SUW team voting that followed, resulting in the final 12 most popular ideas. Rob Maigret.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. But how do you actually get the right people to be your mentors? Lindsey Harper recently wrote about her experiences using Mechanical Turk to validate her startup idea. " Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

The idea was getting mature and by end of June we had the first version. I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. At Ioui Apps we believe in the idea of creating a new interaction system for social networks. Any mentors or VC’s? No mentors and no investors so far, we are open to discussion.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

HV: Our main competitive advantage is the idea of personalization. AA: In the beginning your idea is a hypothesis and you need to validate it. HV: The I-Corps mentors are very experienced entrepreneurs and they will just tell you straight up what they think of your results. How is Movn different than your competition?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

You can be an entrepreneur and at the same time you can be a mentor or an investor to someone else’s project. We thought we had a great idea and we wanted to see how people responded to it. Our co-founder and CTO, Josh Fester and I met each other online and within a month he moved from St Louis to LA.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. Eventually, the idea was that the entertainment industry's workforce would reflect our audience. I've never met them, but I'm a fan of the whole idea. How did this start?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Other people on the LAGbook Team include Josh Osemwegie (our Chief Financial Officer), Nosa Ilegbinehi (our Chief Publicity Officer), and Emmanuel Alugo (our Chief Technology Officer). Who are your mentors, role models? We don’t have mentors at the moment.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 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 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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