Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). He had built and sold his first company and had good ideas for his second company.

Entrepreneur

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Have a rough idea of what you are looking for in terms of talent. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out.

Guide

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

Startup

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? Lots of thoughts here.

Startup

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals.

Startup

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I’ve always respected your work and perspective on internet businesses and social media so I wanted to pick your brain about opportunities in this space for consulting and full-time employment; how do I position myself? How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team?

Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. You are the person who wants to commit but you have no idea if the other party is going to be willing to commit to you.

CTO Coach

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

The old way was difficult, time consuming, and often expensive; referrals, calling up lawyers, going through initial consultations. They''re actually initial consultations, ranging from divorce to DUI. I had been wanting to combined entrepreneurship and law, so we started brainstorming ideas. But, how do you start?

Help

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

I owned and ran my own search marketing company, and started and ran a digital consulting company. I''ve actually been tinkering with the name your own price idea for a long time. Todd introduced me to Andrew, and Andrew is now our CTO. I started by career at Yahoo, and also worked at Intermix. READ MORE>>.

Pricing

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2013

Unlike those, however, one of the latest projects, ActiveReplay (www.activereplay.com) has some serious, experienced executives behind it, who have the experience in designing hardware devices--in the form of CEO Dr. Anatole Lokshin, who helped create the consumer GPS market as the CTO of Magellan Navigation. How did that happen?

Startup

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Dan Rodrigues: The genesis for the idea actually started in my last business, between the first company I started--which was an Internet startup--and Kareo. For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. that has really yet to be transformed and disrupted by technology.

Startup

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. Details coming soon!)

Product

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. Hey, radio.

Los Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company.

SEO

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

Marketing

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. Braintree Payment integration is another. We spent time making sure we had a great team.

Social Network

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. I'm married to Mike Freehling , M&A and financial management consultant. Like your idea of the 30-minute phone conversation too. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. Kudos, I'm in!

Marketing

Alon Schwartz

JANUARY 18, 2009

Beside the free marriage consultation I sometimes give, I want to mainly focus on business partnerships. I think it was a fantastic idea to see what I’m really like. If you’re the CEO and you’re looking for a partner CTO (sound familiar) you’re not just checking him out, he is checking you as well.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas. Leila Chirayath Janah. .

Twiistup

Alon Schwartz

JANUARY 18, 2009

Beside the free marriage consultation I sometimes give, I want to mainly focus on business partnerships. I think it was a fantastic idea to see what I’m really like. If you’re the CEO and you’re looking for a partner CTO (sound familiar) you’re not just checking him out, he is checking you as well.

Startup

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects.

Startup

Alon Schwartz

JANUARY 18, 2009

Beside the free marriage consultation I sometimes give, I want to mainly focus on business partnerships. I think it was a fantastic idea to see what I’m really like. If you’re the CEO and you’re looking for a partner CTO (sound familiar) you’re not just checking him out, he is checking you as well.

Startup

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. Below are 50 ideas for step 2. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

Startup

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? It’s 2010 and that idea has not graduated to mainstream yet.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. External scanning for resources.

Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. External scanning for resources.

CTO Hire

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. External scanning for resources.

Acquisition

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

HV: Our main competitive advantage is the idea of personalization. HV: I would also add one more thing — we have consulted with neuroscience professionals here at USC, and they have informed the development of behavioral science models that we have built into our platform. How is Movn different than your competition?

USC

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

The idea is that the app uses the onboard microphone, reads the movie at any point the movie is playing using acoustic finger printing and audio recognition. Has this sort of idea been around and was it not executed because of some sort of a technical issue? We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. Entertainment.

Startup

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. Subscribe to RSS.

Los Angeles

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

– Premium Online Advertising Company Age: 21 - 25 Time Period: 1997 - 2001 My Role: Chief Technology Officer, Technology Founder and Chairman, Advisory Board High Point: $500 million market cap; 3,000+ customers; 8 billion transactions per month; 65% Internet reach Warning, this will be a long posting.

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