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At First Summit, 7CTOs Takes Baby Step to San Diego Tech Buildup

Xconomy

A search for “CTO books,” on the other hand, yields about 540 titles. But to Etienne de Bruin, a disproportionate amount of attention has focused on the tech founder as CEO, and what it takes for a CEO to build a tech business. As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in.

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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

socalTECH

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. So is this more social networking, or is this search? Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. Blackline / Therese Tucker - Tucker was CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and knows her customers--finance folks at enterprise firms--well.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Fortunately our CTO doesn''t have that problem. But, you can overcome it. Grow, grow, grow.

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Interview with Tyler Koblasa, Mingly

socalTECH

Then, I built another site called Stormserve.com, one of the top 700 sites on Alexa, and then also worked with AOL in technology, doing remnant traffic optimization. Our CTO, Josh MacAdam, worked at my previous company in 2001/2002, and built a company called Auctionwagon, which was later acquired by a company in San Diego.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Matt is also the Chief Technology Officer of CyberCoders, a leading recruiting firm that places top talent in every job type and industry.