SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Third party products are used appropriately. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years.

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Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

Our proprietary processes and unique experience helps us evaluate and correct software development practices that have proven inefficient and instill practices that insure productivity and success. This can create some serious issues for you as most new frameworks out there never make it past a Beta stage or version 1.0.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If so, Los Angeles-based Overnight (www.joinovernight.com) is for you. It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. I got to live in Tel Aviv for four months with their product team, and I really got bit by the travel bug. Asher Hunt: We are coming out of beta in Los Angeles right now.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. We're very big in the Agile framework. We do have a big effort on mobile and the responsive web.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

the rising tech movement sweeping through the burgeoning Los Angeles startup scene ­— he wants to put L.A. A vision of the future of the Los Angeles tech community he hopes will rival ­­— if not surpass Silicon Valley in 10 years as a the leader of groundbreaking innovation. The framework in L.A. Creating L.A.’s

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. I described that phenomenon in this post. Network Up. But what else?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. You are an outsider.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. Our product and engineering team has spent hundreds of hours to take that complexity, and distilled it into a very simple interface.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. You are an outsider.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. We move the discussion over to early product days. “We’ve built an app framework.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store. We want to make your drive time much more productive. That's the hard part.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. We move the discussion over to early product days. “We’ve built an app framework.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? Accounting? Who will do that?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Both companies were in Los Angeles. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California. Not bad, hey? I agree with him.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. This is where the digital media puck is going. This will change in the next 2 years.

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