YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

by Adam Root, founder and CTO of Hiplogiq. I went to several tradeshows to validate my data and networked with small business decision makers. Go to tradeshows and network with customers. He’s the founder and CTO of Hiplogiq , makers of marketing technologies SocialCompass and SocialCentiv. A DUI lawyer?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. But it does require some new thinking.

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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. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? How will we address these without significant cost? Is there a step-by-step wizard?

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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. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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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. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? How will we address these without significant cost? Is there a step-by-step wizard?

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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). These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Beautiful slides by top-tier consultants have hoodwinked large companies for years and I can see why.

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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). These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. If you buy them food (pizza, donuts, coffee) or free stuff (tech gadget, big monitor, t-shirt), they will love you for it far beyond the cost of the actual item. It needs to be funded to be successful. What do you do if you don't know the size?

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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. They include training and are an amazing deal; they also offer exclusive networking opportunities.

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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). These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. If you buy them food (pizza, donuts, coffee) or free stuff (tech gadget, big monitor, t-shirt), they will love you for it far beyond the cost of the actual item. It needs to be funded to be successful. What do you do if you don't know the size?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, TransferFi is creating the world’s first long-range, safe, and efficient Wireless Power Network (WPN). That’s all that’s required to run the wireless power network. Users are able to plug in three sensors to each TFi WPN RX module.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. this time with Vince Thompson. What’s the short version?

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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). These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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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 Our customer base pipeline is growing as we're in the process of closing several contracts. Click With Me Now makes 1-click Web-sharing for consumers possible; with no cost, no downloads and no frustrations.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As the cost of starting a company goes down over time, VC’s have become more than just money providers— they also help entrepreneurs gain customers and grow their teams. The unit cost fell and this idea of pay as you go. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When I first incorporated my company back in 2009, the lawyers I had contracted with to trademark the company name and logo desperately tried to convince me to change the name. I then wanted to play off of the strong Hispanic presence in San Antonio, a feeling of familiarity & friendliness, low-cost, and variety, so “Tacos” came to mind.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale. and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She shares: “We now use metrics like cost-per-learning and validation velocity to show progress since traditional things like ROI weren’t applicable.”

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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. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, summarizes the purpose of the press release: “Writing a press release up front clarifies how the world will see the product – not just how we think about it internally.”. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors. The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety. I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

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. He enjoys working in a variety of industries and is currently actively involved in a publishing, a MI (music instrument), and a social networking business.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It seems like you were looking more for someone to code your site without much cost, than someone with total buy in to your idea and to you as an individual. I was basically a consultant without the payment and I basically got taken advantage of. If you can't do that convincingly, go get investor money and hire a consultant.

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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. Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. There may be lots of pages.

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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. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. But I don’t think so.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In a short amount of time, and targeting a network that is changing around us, we’re very proud of the progress we’ve made and of the great team we’ve built. We aim to establish this new dimension of gaming and to bring truth and utility to blockchain networks. Please explain the token standard you recently helped design, ERC-1155.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Serious talent.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Why would one chose to develop with a particular framework over any other?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The firm used to be called Fotouhi Alonso and were one of LA's top mid-sized agencies for 20 years, working with clients like Honda, Epson, the LA DWP, and the FX Network. I'm married to Mike Freehling , M&A and financial management consultant. The analogy of a lively dinner conversation to describe Visible Networking is perfect.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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