SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become. Who are the people you should meet in the Los Angeles Startup Community to get wired in?

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David Teten

APRIL 17, 2012

After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely and Movable Ink. Nick Ganju, CTO of ZocDoc gave insight into how they oversee scaling of their system.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

From tips on international expansion strategies to using XR as a musical instrument, these sessions at Capital Factory showcased some amazing innovation in Austin’s startup community. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely. If someone gets mad, that’s usually a good sign.

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Fractional VPE Austin Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO 49

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Will : Yes, and that was my first brutal intro into the difficulties of raising venture capital where I lived. . Steve : There is probably is no venture capital for 50 miles, if not 500 miles. . Will : Yes, (although)… Columbus, Ohio, has come a long ways, frankly, from a venture perspective.

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Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

This year, The Startup Magazine is proud to sponsor the entrepreneurship and venture capital conference, SeedCon, run by the Chicago Booth business school. On Friday, January 25, the entrepreneurial community at Chicago Booth looks forward to hosting their annual conference, SeedCon. Event Focus. Investors and Entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company. All three will do very well out of founding GumGum and their subsequent companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Being an entrepreneur is lonely, but there are better ways to make friends or build a community of credible supporters than by giving early-stage equity to people who make small contributions to your business.). Million in Venture Capital. How Daisy Cakes Reeled in a Shark. How a Used-Clothing Site Raised $8.4 0 Comments.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. Back in the 60’s, JFK make a bold proclimation that we were going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2010

I’m getting a little bit tired of running my events list and seeing some of the best folks sitting behind the paywalls of people profiting off of the community’s attempt to talk to itself. produced by community members that there’s hardly any reason to pay other than a token amount for in person innovation and startup related content.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

Last Thursday night, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels joined a small group of technical folks from cloud and commerce related First Round portfolio companies for dinner at Double Crown. We strive to provide a lot of "structural" value, and what that often means is providing the platform for the community to connect with and learn from itself.

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Lean Portfolio Cloud Startup 108

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. Maybe you meet a CTO who is tired of working with ad agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. And that is precisely my thoughts for Seattle and what I plan to deliver on Thursday night: Which few key community leaders are going to step up and get those neurons properly firing and connected?

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Technology | Thursdays. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , For example, Morse notes that neither C corporations nor venture capital funds structured as partnerships can, by law, be S corporation shareholders.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

Three major changes could increase their chances of experiencing sustainable growth: access to angel/venture capital, learning effective pricing/negotiation skills and business mentorship. We, women, have a unique perspective on the needs of our families and communities and with proper support and guidance, can achieve thrive.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 4, 2012

In the same way, I understand why a few extra neurons fire when you approach a business office and the person at the front desk is male. I understand the pause people feel when you look at a startup bio page and you notice that the CTO is female. I don't think you are a bad person for noticing this difference.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. And then I took a stand. Productivity. Twittering.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm and thats how I found him when I walked in at 7:50AM this morning.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Due Diligence 40

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Venture Capital & Technology'

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Some have made the model work. It’s great advice.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Azure 122

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out my career as a geek, very good with edge technology,which at the time was desktop computers and a few years later the Internet. I moved through marketing and sales role, and then venture capital to general management but all along the way I missed the hands on aspect of product and connection of products to people.

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Azure Widget Cofounder Venture Capital 51

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. He brings a strong technology base to the table, as a former CTO, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Curation Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 230

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Seek out venture capital funding. 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. or even be a U.S.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? You have a part-time lead architect, a part-time developer and a part-time community manager. He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week. ON SUCCESS.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Posted in Analysis , Venture Capital. Don't Believe Venture Capital Firm Websites.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2010

I saw Marco Arment talk about building Instapaper on the side while he was CTO of our portfolio company Tumblr. These are the crowds, when brought together in a critical mass, push the envelope of awesomeness, creativity, and style, carrying the reputation of the whole community on their shoulders.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business? First Principles.

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

There were lots of robots, aerial shows with model planes and helicopters, great discussions on current technology trends, and of course, plenty of beer and laughs. Kinnernet was great and I had a blast, made many new friends, and came away clearly impressed with Israel’s thriving and talented startup community.

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Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Fractional CTO 60

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. Johnny Good post.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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