Los Angeles Startup Events
SoCal CTO
MAY 22, 2012
Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.
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Events and Networking in Los Angeles
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 23, 2007
Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em? Finding Startup Co-Founders You would hope that networking events would be a good way to find suitable folks.
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Entreprenuer Network
SoCal CTO
MARCH 1, 2007
The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. No small task Ben. in Computer Science.
Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
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Map of VC Investments
SoCal CTO
MARCH 9, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
Scaling-up: Turning the corner from starving startup to growing company
The Next Web
JANUARY 25, 2014
Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. Social media is now an indispensable factor. Listen carefully and humbly to your users, using social media channels to provide real-time technical support.
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Kevin Federline Search Engine
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing
SoCal CTO
MARCH 13, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
Google Maps Mobile
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 28, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
Interesting Model for University President
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 25, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
About this Blog
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
Innovation and Geography
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.
Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? .
Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
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Where LinkedIn Works for Me
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. in Computer Science.
MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point
SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
Open Source Business Model
SoCal CTO
MARCH 5, 2007
There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
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Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing. in Computer Science.
Challenge of Predicting Winners
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 25, 2007
Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.
A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 11, 2011
While text messaging and social media tools like Facebook and Twitter have transformed the way that today’s students communicate, the problem is that most educational institutions haven’t quite kept up.
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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups
SoCal CTO
MARCH 22, 2007
Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? . Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.
Social Networking and Business Value
SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies? What are the risks and rewards?
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SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. It sounds interesting.
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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding
mashable.com
OCTOBER 16, 2010
Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.
Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding
mashable.com
OCTOBER 16, 2010
Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.
HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online
mashable.com
OCTOBER 27, 2010
Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank
Steve Blank
APRIL 30, 2009
New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)
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Why Startups Should Use Content Marketing From Day One
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2018
When people need answers, the first place they often check is the world wide web. We utilize both content marketing and SEO in our California SEO Company. More than that, you and your co-founders are just as important. We live in a very internet dominated time. You need to stand out from your competitors.
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113 Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 6, 2020
In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Eric Ries : Amen to that.
Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools
www.foliomag.com
JULY 31, 2012
Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. By Ioanna Opidee.
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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2010
There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.
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11 Trends in Web Logo Design
mashable.com
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. The square logos have rounded corners.
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crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How I’m Treated Differently Than My Male Cofounder | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1FfuQL4. 1v1BBN3 crowdspring.co/1v1BzF3.
So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 3, 2012
@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.
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infochachkie.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbaras Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses.
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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. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? This should not deter you.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2020
Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.
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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. If I did go to social events, all I would talk about was my new company. Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. My company became the most important thing in my life.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.
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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,
How Virtual Assistants Are Reshaping The Business Landscape
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 13, 2023
Look, AI is literally eating the web ChatGPT is more searched than I don't know, Taylor Swift. No, I, you know, somebody actually kind of said that to me when I was speaking at an event and we were discussing social media and whether you have to be a personality in order to succeed Right. In business today. And so yeah.
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thenextweb.com
AUGUST 6, 2012
The Next Web. Part of The Next Web family. Social Media. After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. TNW Conference. Were hiring. Twissues: Search and Archive all Your Tweets.
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