SoCal CTO

APRIL 18, 2012

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners - a go to resource here in LA for recruiting C-level positions at startups - was nice enough to compile some data again this year (see last year's Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data ). Or they are looking at Hiring a CTO and want to see what salary and equity ranges look like. It has not.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

He was struggling to find high quality developers in Los Angeles. Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. He has a great concept with some complexity to it. In fact, after a bit he gave up.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. This is why I say that Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. After a considerable amount of market research, we created the SureToMeet system that’s now used by organizations around the country. Maybe that would make sense as a marketing channel.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , a startup developing an online system to help political candidates and other organizations to create web sites, organize volunteers, coordinate campaigns, and more, said Thursday that it has raised $6.3M in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

But at the same time, Los Angeles–based Boulevard got this funding infusion at a boosted valuation because it has been on a roll. Personal care is exactly that — personal and individualized — and therefore it’s been tricky for personal care specialists to use scheduling tools to organize it.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. 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.

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MARCH 22, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile dating app developer Tinder announced a major addition of executives to the company, saying it has named Ferrell McDonald as Chief Marketing Officer, Maria Zhang as VP of Engineering, Derek Callow as VP International, and James Kim as VP of Finance.

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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 If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Speaker Bios: Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace Jason Oberfest is Senior Vice President, Business Development at MySpace, as well as SVP and GM, MySpace Open Platform. Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo Majid Abai is the Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

For our pitch today, we have an interview with Taher Scherzay , founder of Thaeres (www.thaeres.com), a Los Angeles area startup developing subscription and recurring payment processing services. Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. What is Thaeres about?

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Causecast, a new startup focused on promoting causes and non-profits, launched this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The site features videos of celebrities promoting their causes, profiles of nonprofits, and ability to donate to organizations.

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JUNE 1, 2012

That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' And he has truly been a pleasure to work with.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. datatv.com – web & interactive mobile web development based in Los Angeles, Ask for Adam. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions. Community Leaders + Organizers. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. At the end, he said that going forward the focus of the group would be around his commercial offering and that the only value that an organizer and participants get is when they can pitch their stuff to the group.

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JUNE 30, 2016

I organically built the company, and didn't have any outside venture money. Subsequently, I built another, similar company, which I sold to Sun Microsystems, and then started a B2B, online exchange with my current CTO, and sold that to IFILM, which was subsequently acquired by Viacom.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. Becka is also co-founder of Female Founders Los Angeles (FFLA). So, we moved forward from there, and organically grew, creating a boutique agency. What is Helpr?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. One of my big disappointments at GRP has been our office space in Los Angeles.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. We caught up with CEO Patrick Kennedy.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

If you're like many people, you're having more and more public conversations, but there is no tool out there similar to Gmail which a lot of people use to organize their whole life. Alex Benzer: My partner and I met here in Los Angeles, in high school. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers? A couple of quick stories / examples: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. He is looking to find more.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Developers operate at a level and in a language that others in the organization can’t necessarily interpret and understand. Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. So, it’s often hard to know if the developer is an A, B or C player.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. Lee Essner: That''s a great question.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. Much of it is the relationship effect, and because of a lot of people deep in the organization. Darren Clark: There are a lot of dimensions to it.

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