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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. What do we build in-house or outsource?

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socalTECH Jobs: Monday Morning Job Highlights for November 4th, 2013

socalTECH

Mobile/Desktop App Developer w/Linux,Flex/Air or IOS Exp. Looking for a place to exercise and grow your talent in software development and work in an environment that values your ideas and strives for excellence? Enterprise Data Technologies, Inc.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

socalTECH

We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

All of them are a non-issue, because we're either paying for it, or it's through a legacy contract with them through the ABCSearch side. ABCSearch, is not a search portal that a user would visit, it's really a platform designed to allow advertisers to reach users that are on search enabled sites.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Third party products are used appropriately.