SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Instead, give me the details on how you’re going to make your sales, and to whom, on the first day, the first quarter, and the first year. And it will be a consistent picture provided both to the team (CTO, COO) and to investors. Give me granularity. What hurdles do we need to hit for that next round of investment?

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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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tech support is sales.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team? Remind me about your background Steve? You can see more on my LinkedIn profile: [link].

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. But generally I'm going to favor being open.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. But generally I'm going to favor being open.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background. What’s the short version?

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MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc. Well in looking at the situations where I’ve been personally involved in big impact, really moving the needle on factors like sales, customer satisfaction, loyalty – this kind of approach was commonly used. So the question is whether it’s worth the effort.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. 500ms increased response time means 20% less traffic for Google , 100ms increased response time decreases Amazon sales by 1% The impact is quite real.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. StructuredBlogging.org is an initiative to create blogging tool plugins which support not only microformats, but other technologies that will provide a comprehensive set of standards for producing microcontent. Everything else is closed.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. While I sit here and rule. m king of a cow. And I’m king of a mule”. Yertle the Turtle. Final Thought.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

A few things jumped out at me: - Experience in sales or technology - considered a minor negative? If you've not had a C-level but have had experience in sales or tech. He has a bunch of factors that investors should be considering (and generally do). Not sure why. Size of target market $100M is okay.

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. Clients use our templates for things like sales sheets. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. What are you working on now?

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MAY 19, 2010

By way of background for the question, there’s a great post by Bob Aholt, a Pasadena Angel: An Angel Investor’s Thoughts on Valuation.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. It felt like a bad time share presentation.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

" Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing. He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. He recently co-founded CitySourced and I think Ben Kuo nailed him when he describes him as "a connector.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

Maybe we should have talked more. :) I asked this of them two years ago, but I still don't understand is why they weren't able to manually make matches while they were looking to get larger sales and scale both sides of the business. Scaling a match making business can be challenging since you need critical mass on both sides.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

However, my belief is that while certain aspects of technology development have come down in cost and it's easy to build small applications quickly, as the scope of the effort increases, costs do. Just as they always have.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

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AUGUST 3, 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 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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