SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How will you be taking this to market? Often this ties to marketing support. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation.

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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. If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts. Local MVP (most valuable professional) customers are critical in helping Microsoft penetrate foreign markets affordably and effectively, providing the firm its most effective marketing communications and saving it hundreds of millions of dollars in support costs.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We billion market opportunity. The online trade of these recoverable materials represents an unrealized $13.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the total market size for any company was at maximum 100 million potential users. So you’re saying that a decade ago we had 100 million addressable market connected some of the time and now we have 2+ billion connected all of the time. Let’s repeat that.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. It becomes increasingly difficult when you’re trying to scale your business both from engineering perspective and market penetration.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. In addition to we’re taking GumGum and their very cool advertising opportunities to market. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. If you are one of TNW’s many readers, there’s a good chance you might be a product owner, creator, or the marketer of one. Usually, guest authors link to their homepage via their Author Bio (“yourname is VP Marketing of homepage.com…”).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I’m not trying to imply that all VC’s are socially inept – that’s not the case. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I wasn’t feeling it.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Everloop - not convinced that kids need a social network, nice that video was short unlike the other pitches, not sure about private label social networks, it’s a good idea, but then you lose the Everloop identify/brand. Read about the finalists (from Women 2.0 Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Nexpense.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2015

by Tom Britton, co-founder & CTO at SyndicateRoom.com. An experienced investor with good knowledge about your industry will not ask the basics (how big is the market, etc.) The size of their networks. No, not their social network, their investment network and their network of business contacts.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. social media. (3).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. market this year after an initial trip out to the U.S. media market. Aron Yechezkel, our CTO, would definitely open and run a bouldering gym. in October 2017.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Everloop – not convinced that kids need a social network, nice that video was short unlike the other pitches, not sure about private label social networks, it’s a good idea, but then you lose the Everloop identify/brand. Read about the finalists (from Women 2.0 Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Nexpense.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions. Build a Facebook application or other social networking app. Get involved in open source, as much as you can.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Sean Ellis in Bringing a Network Effect Business to Market positions this via the following two pictures: In the case of a normal startup, you can launch an MVP and keep optimizing from there to achieve scale. In a Network Effect Startup, you need to drive growth to some degree in order to be able to even begin to test it.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Sean Ellis in Bringing a Network Effect Business to Market positions this via the following two pictures: In the case of a normal startup, you can launch an MVP and keep optimizing from there to achieve scale. In a Network Effect Startup, you need to drive growth to some degree in order to be able to even begin to test it.

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Marketing Matching Algorithm Bootstrapping 196

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. A Large Number of Ex-Employees With social networks like LinkedIn, its easy to get a rough idea of how many people work at a given company.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2021

The answer is social networks. Explore the market. You also want to do some initial market research that can inform your idea and the opportunity you’re interested in. In general, you want to understand if the industry is a growing market and how regulated it is. But how does one digitally get out of the building?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. " 34; To which I say "we don't think we can time markets." How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. What truth?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. landing pages, etc.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

I've found myself looking mostly at talent and time to market. However, startup founders who are building applications that have: Large Audiences - consumer facing Complex Processing - examples: Matching , Social Network Analysis, Compatibility Scoring, etc. The availability of talent was an important factor.

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