SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO.

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MARCH 8, 2010

San Diego-based Verimatrix has snagged a Motorola vet as its new Chief Technology Officer, the firm said today. The firm said it has named Petr Peterka, formerly a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the CTO's office at Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility Team to the position.

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SoCal CTO

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

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. For example, if you hover over the big circle in California you can see that there were 303 responses for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. The CTO / Lead Architect - If you want to build a great technology company, you’ll need a “rockstar&# engineering lead.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. For example, if you hover over the big circle in California you can see that there were 303 responses for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

I was recently asked by an organization, "Tony, what topics can you cover?" So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Over the past several years, I've done lots of presentations around a wide variety of topics. Tony has a Ph.D. Tony has a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2019

Achkire was most recently Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Foxconn Health Technology Business Group, and also was co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Zap Surgical Systems. Sotera Wireless is aiming at early detection of life threatening conditions at patients in hospitals.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 1, 2011

Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- Organic vs. Strategic Growth: Why, When and How? Organic growth - accomplished through growth of sales in existing product lines/services or developing new product lines/services internally. Companies typically look for growth in one of two ways. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2008

San Diego-based DivX said late Wednesday that the firm's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Markus Moenig, has resigned from the firm. DivX said that Jim Reesman, the firm's Vice President of Engineering, will now lead its global engineering organization.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The firm, which said last year that it had selected Los Angeles for an expanded recruiting effort, recently posted a position for a Chief Technology Officer, based in Los Angeles. Zynga said in the listing that the CTO will be instrumental in growing and scaling the organization.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2017

The startup's founders include Glenn Chisholm, former EVP product organization and CTO at Cylance and CISO at Telstra; Ben Johnson, former co-founder and CTO at Carbon Black, and computer scientist at the NSA; and Matt Wolff, former Chief Data Scientist at Cylance and computer scientist at the NSA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2019

X1 is led by CEO Craig Carpenter and CTO Brent Botta. X1 says it now has more than 600,000 users in 20,000 different organizations using its products. The company has a very long and complex history, its technology originally been spun out of Idealab back in around 2004 as a vendor of desktop search software.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2021

Slingshot is venture backed by ATX Venture Partners, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Techstars Ventures, and Okapi Venture Capital, along with others.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 30, 2017

When I last spoke to Sophie Vandebroek in December, it was for a kind of exit interview as she prepared to leave her longtime job as Xerox’s CTO and head of its worldwide research organization.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2013

For this year's first article, we share the advice of Tony Karrer , Founder and CTO of TechEmpower , Founder and CTO of Aggregage and organizer of the LA CTO Forum and Startup Specialist Network , two local groups focused on startups. I suggested that they should look for someone like me, but on the business end.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 10, 2012

ISSA-LAs Information Security Summit provides business leaders, technology leaders and information systems security leaders with concentrated, thought-provoking, valuable information on the latest cyber threats, providing actionable insights on protecting their organizations.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Structured Data refers to information organized in a defined manner, making it easier to search and analyze. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas As we dive deeper into the capabilities of LLMs in search, it's essential to have a clear understanding of the kind of data these models deal with.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

Since I posted on this and since I've been using this approach for quite a while, it has become pretty obvious that part of the reason that old school organizations / event producers are not getting the value of providing this kind of list. And I think it hurts them in attendance.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2014

InstaMed says it has more than 11,000 healthcare provider organizations using its payment network. The company''s CTo and co-founder, Chris Seib, is located in Newport Beach; the company''s other co founder is CEO Bill Marvin. The company said the new funding came from existing and new investors. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Greenwave''s CTO, Martin Manniche, was CTO at Cisco Systems'' Consumer Business Group; its CEO, Greg Memo, was VP and GM of Cisco''s Consumer Business Organization; the company also has a considerable bank of executive experience from such companies as Nero AG, GridIron Software, Motorola Mobility, Nokia, and Apple.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The new startup--which is split between San Diego and Seattle--said it is looking to help organize the information about home improvement projects, plus also help homeowners to find home improvement professionals. READ MORE>>. porch neighborhood home improvement project costs gallery'

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

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. Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 30, 2013

These endeavors have arisen organically, as we have identified our shared interests. For instance, a friend of mine found it difficult, as a young engineer, to establish a relationship with his company''s CTO. The CTO''s calendar was booked solid, except for lunch, which he spent running.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2014

InstaMed says it has more than 11,000 healthcare provider organizations using its payment network. The company''s CTo and co-founder, Chris Seib, is located in Newport Beach; the company''s other co founder is CEO Bill Marvin. The company said the new funding came from existing and new investors. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2016

Tinder said that CTO Ryan Ogle will become responsible for its product organization, Jonathan Badeen becomes Chief Strategy Officer at the company, and current CMO Phil Schwarz will shift to leading marketing initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. I’m not a big believer in too much hierarchy.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company. and Microsoft had become.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

David Beisel puts it another way: Being an early hire at a startup gives an individual the ability to make tremendous impact on an organization as it grows – and both the founders and those hires should know it. the better the startup will be. Of course, all of that assumes that the early employee does make an impact.

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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. But not really CTO events. or focused on industry or type of company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. The “doers” in your organization. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. The nuance and neuroses of these living organisms.

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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

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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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central.

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