SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. For customer service? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Fulfillment?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. Who is the ideal audience for this service--studios, independents, others? Where's the service now? Darren Marble: Top-tier, independent filmmakers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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? We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

Branchout , often called LinkedIn meets Facebook, has done a lot in their application to provide users motivation and opportunity to spread the word about the service. The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

Branchout , often called LinkedIn meets Facebook, has done a lot in their application to provide users motivation and opportunity to spread the word about the service. The purpose of Branchout is helping people to network their way to jobs. As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Gregg Champion: OneCubicle.com is a social business network for people on their first, second, and third jobs.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. Our system must access our data, possibly 3rd party services, do some calculation and then get back to the user or the other system with our response. Are 3rd party services used? Overnight calculations?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Set up accounts on YouTube and Mixx (try Tubemogul.com) and use these videos to highlight the best of your presentations Create a commercial for yourself, put on above sites Tape record your presentations and make them available via podcast For most service professionals, they might create one or two of these. It's important.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear. They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

I'm sure you're familiar with comparisons to services like Airbnb. How are you handling your own issues with geographic spread and rollout of the service? Can you talk a bit about the social updates part of the service? Aaron Hirschorn: That's a great question. The geographic part of this is very important.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

I'm sure you're familiar with comparisons to services like Airbnb. How are you handling your own issues with geographic spread and rollout of the service? Can you talk a bit about the social updates part of the service? Aaron Hirschhorn: That's a great question. The geographic part of this is very important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If you give away your product or service to the first 10 customers, that’s a good learning experience, but it’s not real traction. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Foreign Service. Like a lot of service professionals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If you give away your product or service to the first 10 customers, that’s a good learning experience, but it’s not real traction. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If you give away your product or service to the first 10 customers, that’s a good learning experience, but it’s not real traction. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. It was somewhat antagonistic to businesses, who were just not interested in that kind of transparency.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Grip was sort of a better social Better Business Bureau, which let people post their complaints and get resolution in public, non-anonymously. Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. It was somewhat antagonistic to businesses, who were just not interested in that kind of transparency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). If you give away your product or service to the first 10 customers, that’s a good learning experience, but it’s not real traction. Build qualified advisory board. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

It's a full-blown, B2B social network. Why hasn't a service like this been available until now? Joe Kevin, our CTO, I've known for fifteen years, and worked for two years in early stage Internet companies. Over time, as companies take control of their profiles, it becomes more and more unique. It's a double viral loop.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. nsyght is a real time service that pull in events and posts that and your friends make on all the social services that you use. Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. What is LAGbook? We’re a team of 5.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. But I don’t think so.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. 10 cents per DAU.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy. Free product.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable.

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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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