SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Dr. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. Great advice based on the scheduling meetings around AngelList.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The way we dealt with this issue is that we took each senior exec in the company (including the CFO and the CTO) and assigned them to important accounts. Your job as CEO is to be “ chief adjudicator ” not “chief dictator.” ” PR. And of course the VP of Sales had the ultimate call.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

More functionally, Boston needs to improve its design, branding, and PR skills. Talking design was Brian Kalma, design chief at Blade, a startup foundry launched by Paul English, former co-founder/CTO of Kayak. However, it’s important to be careful when thinking about brand advertising and/or PR.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

One of the large parts of the burn was PR, Marketing and attending conferences. Isn’t it a confusing title?&# My vote is that co-founders should pick one lead as the CEO and the other should have a functional role & title like Head of Sales & Marketing, CTO, VP marketing or whatever. But that’s a digression.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Getting known through established locals is faster — as well as more affordable — than trying to get locals to know you through advertising, PR, big splash events, and other traditional marketing approaches. It’s better to be a thought leader than to depend on the kindness of strangers. Rock Star advocates can help.).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, on the next iteration of the product, we added vocal effects that work alongside the reverse karaoke technology to “make bad singers sound good,” and my CTO started demoing the app instead of me, with videos of himself sing badly. Our downloads started ramping up. All of Smule’s most successful products – Magic Piano , Sing!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Later, I discovered you could get paid to program computers, and really never looked back. Would love to get in touch.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how. And those are just our keynotes! We also have an awesome lineup of case studies. As always, our rule is by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

At the time, I wanted to focus more on targeting new clients with branding projects and PR covers a lot of areas including social media, so the name was created purely for SEO purposes: Brand Branding PR LLC. I was brainstorming names with my co-founders CTO Jesse Forrest and CMO Matt Reilly. #18- Based on SEO.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Think about it, an average startup team is normally combined of a CEO, CMO, CTO and a few other talented folks. Each one of them can contribute differently using their knowledge about management, marketing or technology. Now, it’s a lot more natural to have more than one author to guest blog for the sake of the same website or product.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. Successful businesses are built in Iowa every day.

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The Next Web

JULY 7, 2012

Thus exists the entire PR industry, bless it… And thus exists the entire PR industry, damn it. As I mentioned, the people who pump the PR bellows are constantly trying to generate media interest in the companies that they represent. I honestly expected PR folk to reject it outright.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2019

Representing numerous different aspects of the startup journey, speakers at the Austin Forum on April 9 include Gordon Daugherty (Capital Factory), Kirk Cesari (Cesari & Reed), Harold Ingersoll (Atchley & Associates), Mitch Jacobson (Austin Technology Incubator), Brian Lang (Profit Foundry), Jill Murphy (FBI), and Nicolia Wiles (PRIME|PR).

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

It’s a rule of thumb that I’ve since followed in my PR marketing business that I’ve operated for more than 13 years. I heard this at a conference from the founder of the Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy, Robert Stephens:”Advertising is the price you pay for being unremarkable.”

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SoCal CTO

JULY 19, 2016

If I can get 2 Nodes, then I’ll do a PR. … .” … In the team room, the team would be huddled around the benchmark saying, “We got another 10,000 or 50,000 or 70,000.” … would only make a pull request when it was an order of magnitude of Node.js. It became this thing in the team room where people kept piling in, and it became important.

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SoCal CTO

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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. Imagine if the ambassadors from Seattle organized a dinner with 8 entrepreneurs, the CTO of Amazon, the head of Xbox and the head of marketing for Starbucks. There is no question NY startups get disproportionate press.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). Editor’s note: You can find more resources around PR, content marketing, and customer acquisition for seed-stage startups in the Marketing & Growth section of our platform.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Furthermore, when faced with adversity only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. This leaves the CTO / Senior Architect to focus on product development and managing the recently hired engineers.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. Please note that you don’t need to become the CTO of your own company as a non-technical founder. They are all just making up lame excuses for not trying.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. Pandora CTO Reveals Half of The U.S. Very shady, if true.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Even though Konstantinos Bratanis, co-founder and CTO of Goodvidio, and his partner started the business with their own hard-earned money, they were able to eventually raise VC funding. Do your own PR. Whether or not you’ve got the budget, doing your own PR to start with is a good idea. Don’t forget real-life products.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR. Wow, that's an interesting question! Many of my go-to people are experts in sectors my clients are in, so I won't list them here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Obama CTO Harper Reed on Keeping Sane in a High-Pressure Environment – [link]. Is crowdsourcing a threat or opportunity for PR agencies? Valuable insight on product management & UX … An interview with Ryan Singer | Inside Intercom – [link]. Ten Things Young CEOs Seem Likely To Get Wrong – [link].

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Founded in 2006 by Yaniv Axen (CTO) and Shmulik Weller (currently serves as CEO),SundaySky is headquartered in New York with a research and development office based in Tel Aviv. SundaySky’s SaaS platform leverages existing website assets, mainly product listing feeds, eliminating the need for customers to maintain the videos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, House of Mikko. prettylittleceo Scaling Lean Thinking in a Fast-growing Startup Rob Fan. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. mashagenzel How $40 Saved Us Nine Months and $2MM Paul Howe. Founder, BlueSpark.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Pitch an idea :) Usually somewhere in the pitch the listener will ask if you’d also be interested in being a CEO, CTO, etc at something they are already funding! So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. link] kevin risky is necessary sometime, maybe.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job. Federico Delgado.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 12, 2010

“What Journalists Need from PR People&# – [link]. Video: Adobe CTO calls out Apple over Flash – [link]. Social Media Revolution – Facts and Figures – [link]. What is a Brand? – [link]. The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook – [link]. 30+ Things You Have to Know about being a Freelancer – [link].

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you are a non-technical type and you really, really think you have a unique idea and you have some secret sauce -- unique content, a proprietary system, or an exclusive business relationship -- that nobody else can duplicate, first try to find a CTO-type to partner with you.

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