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). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We’ve recently added talks from: Former US CTO and current tech advisor to the White House, Todd Park; former Facebook engineering director Joceyln Goldfein; Dropbox engineering VP Aditya Agarwal; and KISSMetrics founder Hiten Shah. We’ve tagged the talks by topic , so you can zero in on what interests you most. That’s no accident.

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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). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T. CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. department for a fraction of the price of hiring these resources in-house. In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T. firms in the nation by trade site MSPmentor.com.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Serious talent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Whimsical may have a silly name, but its features are anything but that.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. We help clients deal with new marketing realities like constant change (which often requires repositioning) and the "online/offline marketing grid" (which lets you extend reach essentially for free using social media). Having fun again.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. They’ve tried everything.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. The system counts how many words are in each document.

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