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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

Due diligence prep: You’re coming up on a funding round or looking at a potential exit. You need a team who’s well-versed in technology and capable of translating that know-how into pragmatic options. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas But what does the right team look like? Are you ready?

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

socalTECH

For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors.

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How Digsy Is Using Data, And Deals, To Drive Real Estate Sales

socalTECH

We had created a tool to let people search online for commercial real estate, then we'd have a concierge plug them into a broker, so that they could meet with a tenant or buyer. We figured out we needed some tools to monitor the performance of the agents, otherwise they'd just fall off the face of the earth. How's the startup funded?

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review. We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

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. I Be specific. This is a great configuration for a starting team. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

It needs to be funded to be successful. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. LinkedIn - This remains one of my primary tools. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. What do you do if you don't know the size?

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

Tech Zulu Event

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Our fitness events and mapping tool is a key differentiator.