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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

" I realized that I've never captured topics that I've covered (I'm always willing to look at other topics), nor have I put up my speaker bio. So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Tony has a Ph.D. He is a frequent speaker at trade and industry events.

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Which Social Networks are for Entrepreneurs?

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. Since I’ve been lurking around the various social networks for the last year or so, I’ve learned a few things, so I thought it would be helpful to clue you in on current networking cultures, and how they map into the business networking scene.

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8 Tips For Startups Preparing For The Media Spotlight

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. The baseball community has really taken to it, because we''ve set it up how coaches already operate. How''d you start the company? What''s the idea behind FieldLevel?

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Customer Loyalty Can Be a Startup Competitive Edge

Startup Professionals Musings

Herein lies an opportunity for startups to beat the big guys. I think these tough economic times and social networks have re-awakened consumers to the fact that there is more to a business transaction than price. Customers say it takes ten good experiences to make up for one bad one. Loyalty works from the top down.

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Ninja Metrics: Apply Predictive Analytics To Makes Games More Profitable

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We spoke with CEO and founder, Dr. Dmitri Williams , on how a collection of data scientists ended up in the online, social, and mobile gaming industry, and how the company is turning those petabytes of data into what''s important for companies: money. Talk about how your research led to this startup? How is it you do that?

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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. You are up and going in just a few clicks. Network and Connection Statistics Possibly Branchout focuses too much on your network. Having it come up every few times is a bit annoying. You connect with Facebook.

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