SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. Remind me about your background Steve? I can see that.

Los Angeles 179

Los Angeles Product Angel Startup 179

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

on all the computers and established a network using Novell. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I installed Windows 3.1

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader. And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system. more) READ MORE>>.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). It took 3-4 months into the development of the product for Hashable to realize that it is a mobile first, web second service.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Scaling thru Outsourcing. Merge Offline/Online Networks for Startup Success. Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Power Up Your Life thru Mobile Gamification (Velti).

Southern California 89

Southern California SoCal Guide Mixergy 89

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're only using our money to pay developers. I was impressed by what he was working on.

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Networking and relationships. Networking is the way to stay current yourself and nurture those relationships. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Networking and relationships. Networking is the way to stay current yourself and nurture those relationships. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

As enterprises outsource more of the business operations to hosted platforms, more emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring mission-critical applications are always accessible. This means that the network connections to enterprise sites increase in their importance. Improve Network Monitoring through IoT. Is it self-provided?

Networking 45

Networking Southern California Outsource Development Startup 45

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.” Remember “ The Social Network ” movie about Facebook? I always tell them to forget it. To someone laboring in a cash-strapped startup, money often seems to be the endgame.

Outsource Development 93

Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Outsourcing your core competency does not work. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. Outsourcing any of these critical roles is very expensive, and usually not very effective.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

Ideas 61

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

There are various tech savvy groups of people that can assist businesses in their development, implementation and use of technology. Network engineers and programmers are essential in designing platforms and up-keeping them. Then there is a Network Engineer that will make sure that communication lines stay open between everybody.

Web 40

Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Here are the 4 that need to be part of your network: Legal Services. To make sure your IP is protected — As I’ve written before, failing to develop an IP strategy, including a plan for protecting your IP as well as avoiding unwitting infringements of someone else’s, is a huge mistake. And relying on NDAs is not the answer. HR Partner.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Find events, conferences, mixers, networking groups, meet up groups who would find value in hearing your insights.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

On the day of Miigle’s public launch, we chatted about developing his team, lessons learned, and how World Cup soccer fits into his vision. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. I had to go to networking events. Back then we invested very little in design.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Capital Startup Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Set up your computer and network. Go mobile and consider app development. Use waivers and contracts to prevent litigation. Create and manage your social media presence.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Competition Venture Capital Advertising 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. I am a business person, not a technologist. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

CTO Coach 28

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231