SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Todd is a go to resource for people looking for talent in startups. You can find a public Google Spreadsheet with the data: CTO Equity Compensation Google Spreadsheet. You can find a public Google Spreadsheet with the data: CTO Equity Compensation Google Spreadsheet. He was a great presenter to our group.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity Company 273

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has sued a new startup, Humu , founded by former Google head of people operations Laszlo Bock, over its name. Humu is reportedly working on human resources software. The lawsuit was filed with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu Google Startup Resource 113

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2018

In a move designed to attract more customers from the media and entertainment industry, Google said this week that it will be opening up a new Los Angeles cloud region to its cloud computing platform, Google Cloud. READ MORE>>.

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Google Hollywood Services Cloud Computing 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2010

I sent out a Tweet tonight asking whether anybody uses Google’s Buzz product independently of Twitter. And for me it begs the broader question – why did Google launch Buzz like this in such a haphazard, unplanned way with an uninteresting, undifferentiated product? I got a pretty luke warm reaction. It’s annoying.

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Yahoo Google Marketing Resource 252

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. We made mistakes ourselves that proved to us that you can’t make markets move faster than they inherently want to just by throwing more resources at them. In fact, not going fat at this stage can also cause problems.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

.&# What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. Not Google. As our needs grew we could just add more cheap boxes and as boxes failed we could just chuck them out. These are very different.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. The world is filled with doubters who say that things can’t be done and then pronounce after the fact that they “knew it all along.&# Look at Google. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Google 338

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

The City of Los Angeles has launched its own smartphone application, the firm said Monday, called MyLA311 , which will allow Angelenos to submit serviec requests, pay their LADWP bills, and also locate city resources. The new app, which is free, runs on both Apple's iOS and Google Android.

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Los Angeles Google Resource Angel 173

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. ” Nest and Google are not new to each other.

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Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

SRCH2 is looking to bring many of the advanced search engine features users are used to on sites like Google -- such as instant search and predictive search--to the rest of the world.

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Tool Software Google Resource 190

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

Camarillo-based Cool Planet Biofuels , the cellulosic biofuels developer backed by BP, Shea Ventures, General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners, announced today that it has received approval from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to begin fleet-testing its low carbon gasoline.

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Google Resource Develop Development 178

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

David encourages entrepreneurs to stay away from the big tech firms (such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) because they are hard to compete with. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Laughable now.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. Most consumers know how this works if they use Google, which launched this two years ago. But, it can only be used in certain places, such as Google itself. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2013

New Google+ announced in last week’s Google I/O. Last week, Google hosted their annual developer’s conference Google I/O , announcing some exciting new products and releases that will likely change the world in the few years to come. Google+ is like the Bing for Microsoft.

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Google Slides Design Conference 83

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

Planetary Resources, which has the backing of folks like James Cameron, Google's Larry Page, and Microsoft's Charles Simonyi, was co-founded by Diamandis. Planetary Resources, which has the backing of folks like James Cameron, Google's Larry Page, and Microsoft's Charles Simonyi, was co-founded by Diamandis.

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Marina Del Rey Resource Google Design 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Damir Davidovic: NEOGOV is a cloud-based, human resources suite. For the last few years, we've been working on our full blown human resources platform, which is built on the latest technology.

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Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2020

San Diego-based venture capital fund Sectoin 32 says it has made a number of key appointments, as it expands its human resources, staffing, and communications efforts. Larson was previously at Third Rock Ventures; Cheung was at Playground Global, Essential, and Google; Hing was at Uber Eats; Stapleton at Google; and Shih was at Essential.

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Google San Diego Venture Capital Resource 124

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2011

Google's online video sharing site YouTube , said today that it has inked a deal to add around 3,000 movie titles for rent through the site, as it looks to broaden its offerings from the amateur, web-based videos its is known for towards more traditional, professional content. READ MORE>>.

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Content Sites Google Resource 164

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2013

Google Tuesday announced a partnership with the Chelsea Improvement Company , a nonprofit neighborhood redevelopment corporation working in southwest Chelsea, to provide free WiFi internet access to the southwest Chelsea community making it the first wired neighborhood in Manhattan and the largest contiguous WiFi network in New York City.

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Google Help Networking Study 88

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure.

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S3 IBM IBM SaaS 153

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 237

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you need more help on really getting inside the mind of programmers, two great resources are Dilbert and Foxtrot (the little kid is a budding rock star developer). They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources. Time Wasters - Don't talk too much. Stay on point. Only go social when they go social.

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Guide Startup Mobile Framework 349

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

One of the most profound books I have ever read is Jared Diamond’s “ Collapse ” in which he talks about how and why historical cultures have collapsed and disappeared and the quick answer is that it always comes rapidly from over exploitation of natural resources.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The company--which says it hasn''t provided a public API due to the time and resources to "build an open and trustworthy third-party application ecosystem"--said that giving login credentials to third party applications allows developers--and "possibly a criminal" access to account information.

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Snapchat Software Review Venice Google 147

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2013

The two said the test was approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and is a milestone in the commercialization process for the company. Cool Planet is venture backed by BP, Google Ventures, Energy Technology Ventures (GE, ConocoPhillips, NRG Energy), and the Constellation division of Exelon. READ MORE>>.

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Ventura Google Resource Report 147

InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” It’s another resource for entrepreneurs. I think it’s a huge positive.

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Startup Incubator Doc Mentor 270

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

McQuillen was at StrongMail/L90 with Rubicon Project''s founder, Frank Addante; Yousry was at Bell Labs/AT&T; Peterson was former Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Nimble TV; Karatz was former Deputy Mayor for Economic and Business Policy in the City of Los Angeles; and Chelsvig was formerly VP of Human Resources at Green Dot.

Chief Technology Officer 164

Chief Technology Officer ReachLocal Southern California Advertising 164

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Every competitor is resource constrained. Google announced Google Wave and people are worried about the impact on your business? Believe me they’ll all have Google Alerts out on the competition and will read their announcements with interest. They’re working evenings and weekends. Over communicate with them.

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Startup Press Customer Custom 331

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. InviteMedia (acquired by Google). We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced. You want that key marketing resource from Google but he’s on a fat salary that you can’t match. But that’s where the next trait becomes so critical.

Entrepreneur 288

Entrepreneur Startup Slides Seed Funding 288

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you. Quite often the goal is to get them into a spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them.

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Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There are lots of good resources on this, especially for hiring technically-oriented people where intelligence and problem solving is a key ingredient: The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing, Version 3.0

CTO Hire 282

CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2012

Winn Interests is the investment firm of Texas oil and gas wildcatter Charlie Winn; Manti Ventures invests the money of Texas oil firm Manti Resources, founded by Lee Barberito. TomorrowVentures is the investment arm of Google's Eric Schmidt.

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Lakewood Malibu IP Research 140

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

Click around on the various topics to find some amazing resources. Or looking at issues around Founders you find the great post from Ben Yoskovitz on Founder DNA – How Investors Evaluate Startup Founders. The home page always shows the latest and greatest content coming out. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

Content 175

Content Startup Social Media IP 175

Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2016

Experian looked at three hundred brands and 21 billion emails – a few more than you or I have as a resource for our marketing intelligence. If you have not done so, let Google tell you whether your web site is responsive.

Email 174

Email Marketing Web Mobile 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Deliverables and the resources you have to achieve them are two sides of the same equation. Just because Google sales hit $1.5 Expanding a project without additional time or resources is called scope creep. Calibrate the plan with resources available to deliver it. How do I know what resources I need?

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Startup Metrics Resource Technical Review 155