SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. What channels will you use (e.g.,

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

Like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably mapped out the business plan, dreamed up the layout and you’re already snapping up domains and emailing developers with your plan. However, there is a wealth of information and knowledge that should be gained ahead of developing the MVP, which is known as product discovery.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’re looking to triple the size of our engineering and product team within the next year,” said Sandy Jen, co-founder and chief technology officer for Honor. “We In the coming years, this technology will open a channel to allow seniors more streamlined access to the products and services they need at home?—?creating

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Marketing Consultant Marketing Consultants are experts in a specific field who help companies by giving advice and developing their marketing strategies.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals. CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? How do you like them apples?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. Early-stage startups.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2015

Starting this Monday, March 9 th 4-6pm Pacific Time I’ll be on the radio hosting the Bay Area Ventures program on Sirius XM radio Channel 111 – the Wharton Business Radio Channel. Mark your calendar for 4-6pm Pacific Time on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111 : March 9 th. Oren Jacob – CEO ToyTalk. Leave me a comment.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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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. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press.

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Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas. Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk. Do the channels you imagine to reach these customers actually want to work with you? They all know they’re made up.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Filed under: Customer Development. It included things like advertising, marketing analytics, cyber security. There were things like drones in there. Very, very far-fetched ideas, frankly.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. The SaaS test balloons helped gauge the potential traction on social media and other channels. Depending on the channel, delay until you’re ready for that channel.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers. gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Would love to get in touch.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative. Disruptive. We get it! Here’s why.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Photoshop was originally targeted at serious photographers — not people with point-and-click cameras and shake-to-develop film but the people with buckets of chemicals and blacked-out windows. They’re either developing their own film or they’re serial killers. What about veterinarians?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Maybe that would make sense as a marketing channel. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. Besides Tony Karrer for software/web development in Los Angeles ;) who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? Hey, radio.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story: .

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 4, 2012

Microsoft will not retain intellectual property or equity in any of the participating companies but will provide provisioned Xbox development kits, Kinect hardware, the Kinect for Windows SDK and space for testing and developing during the program. Eran Egozy, Founder and CTO, Harmonix. Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

Whitney is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. Helping people develop their potential and become the self they want to be and are capable of being is what leaders strive toward. Is this something you see happening with personal development? [4:09] Marketing Podcast with Whitney Johnson.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

They're going through their personal networks and around the typical hiring channels—especially since environment and people matter so much when you join a company. Instead, the CTO there met someone amazing at SXSW who turned out to be a big fan (and customer) of the company. That's the way a lot of this stuff goes. Why senior level?

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

However, your partner could just as easily have argued that her sweat equity is worth $250,000 since that's what a prototype would have cost you to make had you hired a prototype development firm. Or she could argue that the prototype is so critical to the business that she should get 50 percent of the company's stock.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development. This is one of my favorite startup presentations of all time by Mike Cassidy on going fast. And convey this in your pitch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2016

You can also follow updates from @whitehouse on Twitter, as well as the NCWIT social media channels. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Google will collaborate to expand CS options for more than 400 girls living in HUD-supported housing by extending the NCWIT AspireIT outreach program to local HUD partners.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). He also founded and served as chief technology officer of Life Magnetics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

We hear about, for example, GitHub has become a hub of technological development and sold to Microsoft for seven and a half billion, and Salesforce has got over a million members, and all these different examples. That’ll be another marketing channel for us.” They can be developed, of course, online.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Brzezenski then roped in Gadomski as CTO. “(The) clothing market is really tough and companies (constantly) search for new channels of distribution and promotion,” explains Renda. “One of our next steps in developing Lookmash is to introduce tagging.”

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

The problem with the most blockchain developers is that they approach the process as developers and not as businessmen. This approach could be a good opportunity for these developers, because businessmen understand the industry. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO.

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