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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

The problem is you don't yet have product/market fit, and until you do, you don't really know what to build. You may end up hiring these people eventually and you'll know more about them when you do. These companies are very early-stage and definitely have not shown product/market fit. They need to determine product/market fit.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

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Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. SpotOn will now have over 500 employees on its product and technology team, according to co-founder and co-CEO Zach Hyman.

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up. Why the disconnect?

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

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. Lots of online marketing before that, but we had some great results when we were picked up by a national radio program. Hey, radio.

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General Assembly Raises $35M In Funding Round

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General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. general assembly angeles venture capital learning digital school technology' READ MORE>>.

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8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Reflections on 2020: Brian Mac Mahon, Expert Dojo

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Today, we have Brian Mac Mahon of startup accelerator ExpertDojo (www.expertdojo.com). I believe that most of our success came from startups resonating with our message to build big, fast. This is my 4th market upset and in the first three I was defensive. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.