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. That's great training for the startup world. Hollywood's an old industry, used to doing business in traditional ways. It's all about execution.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

We were just launching one of our previous startups, VidRoll, working on video training and video advertising, we started seeing all of the problems that the video and general ad industry was facing. Our CTO, James Young, was at Zynga, and was an early engineer that launched Farmville. Tell us a little bit about your team?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things? We've had a lot of advisors along the way, in the financial and technology realm, which has helped us with everything. Our company started as University Sitters, and we pivoted it to this new company, Helpr.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We just recently brought in a CFO, a CTO, and also brought our technology team in house, so we are positioned to move our product forward, and grow and hire sales people in all of these different cities. We just added a level of technology for them, on top of their valet operations.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? We have a team of people and technology which scours the Internet, and looks for videos we like and think would be a perfect fit for our Youtube channels. What is Jukin Media? How do you decide what content you will license?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. Our CTO is from the USC Insitute of Creative Technologies. They were mid-skills jobs, and involved getting people into union jobs, which would pay really well.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective which led to it’s spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2009, and gained quick notoriety for their RGM music video collaboration with OK Go. He make others see technology as magic. 10:15am: MIND.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Robin Richards: After selling Notification Technology to Blackboard, we kind of sat around and said--where is there a marketplace, that can do some good, really needs to be developed using technology, and where there is no major player involved. That would have a profound effect on training and opportunities in America for students.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This month’s big question is Examples of Big Impact from Technology and I’ve taken it as an opportunity to go back and look at the elements of different projects that I’ve worked on over the years that have had a big impact. There’s a bit of training required to cover things like roles, alignment, how things work.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. If they don’t have a call center already with trained sales reps answering calls, they’re probably not a good fit.”. I think these personal traits are what reunited us; even more so than our vision for RingRevenue.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

On the SAT/ACT side, in classroom tutoring, we have used our technology to automate the back office. We get the right people in, and trained very quickly, and then have them out there working. We also have a director of curriculum and CTO, which as enlarged the user experience on the technical team.

Software Review 178

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Dan Gould is the another founder of Chill and leads the technology team. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com.

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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. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Besides Tony Karrer for technology, who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? Maybe ten years. Foreign Service.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

But my aspiration in college was “to get a good job.&# In 1990 that’s what I was trained to want to do – impress my parents and their friends. I cleared hundreds. In college I threw keg parties and again cleared hundres of dollars. They are more technical than people who go to other universities.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We started with Wi-Fi based technology, using 802.11. We do lots of training, integration, and comarketing, and they're our number one customer--we want to make sure their 155 people are absolutely successful, to help us drive market growth. Right now we're at 31 different hospitals. How long have your systems been in deployment?

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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. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Dec 26, 2009). Final Thought. and Flipboard newspapers.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 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 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Delegate and automate. And then I took a stand. Twittering.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. He created a technology version of Neighborhood Watch where people in your neighborhood could share suspicious footage of individuals around their house.

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