SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. It's a great talk. Here’s why.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

Greenlee is the co-host of The New Media Show audio & video podcast and Spreaker Live Show. Prior to Spreaker, he was with PodcastOne as EVP/CTO and was also former Business Manager and Content Manager, Podcasts at Microsoft Zune, Xbox and Windows Phone. Are you an independent marketing consultant or an agency owner?

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Startup Basics Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. AI, M/L, And D/L will continue to be darlings of VC & M&A?

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

They don’t bill as much as I do, and they do the work in a fraction of time. In a relationship sometimes, that’s one of those things when we operate differently from our partner or our spouse. I have a client who does business consulting. As a CTO, he noticed this. God bless them. It may take me an hour.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

But Bazaarvoice actually has a working network effect that benefits all participants: retailers, brands that sell through those retailers, consumers that shop at those brands and retailers, and Bazaarvoice and some of its partners. I wrote about this in detail in my first annual shareholders letter after Bazaarvoice became a public company.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For additional advice, I recommend reading " Finding a Technical Partner for your Startup ), by Daniel Kehoe, a CTO Consultant, who was kind enough to hear my struggles out and offered advice suggesting that we should supplement our current Advisory Board with a Technical Advisor. Want to be featured?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Future posts will have some Ben stories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VIDEO GAMES. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. We have considerable experience with early, mid and late stage technology businesses, both as inside and outside counsel. . -->. GeekWire Partners.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. You need to know how many partners they have and which partners do which kinds of deals. Never stop in the ink is dry on the contract and the money is in your bank account.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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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. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Trust me, once you’ve launched and achieved traction, you’ll have your pick of mentors, VCs, partners and all the legal expenses you need. Partner up? No legal muck.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tiny, contracting market. Instead, after having tons of holes poked into our idea by friends, cousins, VCs, baristas, entrepreneurs and bored women at parties, we turned SpeakerText into a tool for video publishers and even our crappy v1.0 Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post !

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Just “sell downloadable and streamable video files.” I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. Well as a programmer of many websites I find that it is easier for my clients to consult my ideas first.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Also, engineering, we have Pin Chen, our CTO is in place and he basically runs the whole engineering team so really I just talk to him and make sure that they’re working on stuff that’s a good idea. There’s another track for our consultant partners. My primary duties actually remain in product.

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