socalTECH

JULY 24, 2014

Southern California has a growing number of companies in the customer relationship management area, including a fairly new company in the area, Pipeliner CRM (www.pipelinersales.com). We spoke with Nikolaus Kimla , the CEO of Pipeliner CRM, to learn more about the company, its move here, and its software. Who are your customers?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Dinesh Ravishankar: We were doing software development for various companies in Southern California, out of my condo in West LA. To be honest, all five of our founding partners are developers, and we were all software developers or in computer science. How did you end up in this market?

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JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. They all were very different companies.

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