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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

I have quite a few conversations like this and am having one via email right now, so it inspired me to put it in a post instead. What you should be gathering from this is that looking for a job is more of a sales process than anything else and there are no easy answers. You need to start by figuring out who your suspects are.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. A great post by Elizabeth Knopf , FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder where she breaks down the process much like how you think about a sales process.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

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You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent.

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Goals Accountability and Social Support for Big Impact

SoCal CTO

For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc. As an example – …” In other words, here’s a template for a conversation (or email). In fact, we’ve also used it as a means of some fairly generic goal setting processes. This might be a good time to jump remind them about the importance they’ve attached to the goal.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

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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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

SoCal CTO

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. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO.