SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

I'm beginning my final preparation for my presentation at eLearn 2009. As I did for my keynote at ASTD TechKnowledge in January, I'm using what I described in Twitter Conference Ideas.

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JULY 16, 2010

eEye is now headed by Kevin Hickey, who assumed the role of CEo in December of 2009. The firm also recently named Marc Maiffrett, a co-founder of the firm, as Chief Technology Officer.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve? Founder : Ummm.

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MAY 24, 2021

Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Calabasas-based BlackLine Systems , a developer of account reconciliation and financial close software, is claiming that it saw a strong Q4 and a 50 percent increase in its annual revenues over the prior year, despite a difficult economy in 2009. Tucker is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 12, 2009

Monday, May 18, 2009 -- CommNexus presents: Verizon Wireless Town Hall. At the Verizon Wireless Town Hall you'll hear from Anthony Melone, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Verizon Wireless about what's just around the corner at Verizon. See [link] (more).

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Cool Planet says it is developing technology from converting biomass into gasoline. The company is headed by Mike Cheiky, who was most recently President and CTo of Transonic Combustion. The new funding comes on top of its first round of venture capital funding in September of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Ryan was the CEO and founder of DoneRight, which was sold to tree.com in 2009, and also served as CTO at Overture Services. Los Angeles-based OneClickPolitics , a new startup headed by former DoneRight founder Paul Ryan, has surfaced, focusing on helping users connect with elected officials.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.

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MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Lower on the page, you can find the best posts from Cliff based on social signals with the top spot belonging to his 9 Marketing Trends for 2009. So you can see that Entrepreneur (60) LinkedIn (15) Metrics (16) SEO (15) Company (141) are all considered highly relevant to the term "startup."

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 -- City of Los Angeles Technology and Education Summit. It is spearheaded by Randi Levin the citys CTO and IT General Manager, and is the citys one and only annual technology event.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009 -- "Bootstrapping an Agile Team" Scrum Club. Please join LA Scrum Club and Rally Software for a special evening on Monday, February 9th with local Agile luminaries: Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation, Scott Downey, ScrumMaster at MySpace, and George Schlitz, Principal Coach at Big Visible Solutions.At

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009 -- New Manufacturing Technology for Clean Energy. Energy Leadership Lecture Series with Mark Pinto, Senior VP and CTO, Applied Materials.

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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. You could just outspend.

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JULY 21, 2009

The firm said today that it closed its fiscal year on June 30, 2009, with more than $28M in recurring revenue, and 280 customers. Service-now is headed by former Peregrine Systems and Remedy CTO Fred Luddy. Service-now.com said that it is now expecting to be profitable next year and have more than $50M in recurring revenue.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. ” How’d that turn out in the late 90′s? To be clear, growth is really important when I’m an investor. But I do wonder about a couple of things: 1.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). These are often amazingly talented people who are really strong in some of the skill areas and there is no shame in this.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

This technology allows us to see what is hot. Together these social signals indicate content that is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest).

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. We need to make sure we have these numbers. Quite often the goal is to get them into an excel spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Dec 26, 2009). m the f%*kin’ boss.”. figure it’s a good time to be introspective and consider my motivations. Why do startups?

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JANUARY 12, 2010

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. Colin Kelley, the CTO of RingRevenue , left a comment in my last post about the need to “ mask interrupts &# in order to get work done. So I often try to stay off of email during the day.

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MARCH 14, 2011

How did you get into the technology business? My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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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. 17, 2009 and before Jan. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Built last business (sold cell phones and communications products) to $1.5M+ in revenues. I love movies, basketball, skiing, and snorkeling (especially in Maui). 3rd Startup. Worked at Cisco, Microsoft, and Deloitte. Python programmer and iOS developer.

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JUNE 18, 2009

I had one foot in the technology world, going through an online TV network--and at the same time, brought the foundation of TV content to the web. The strongest executives I can identify can both talk entertainment and at a high level with a CTO, and know code and other things.

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APRIL 10, 2019

We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry. One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years.

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MAY 10, 2012

From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective which led to it’s spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2009, and gained quick notoriety for their RGM music video collaboration with OK Go. 10:15am: MIND. Tristan Ursell Ph.D. / @Creepuscular.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! . © A solid SWAT team is invaluable, and to me, it is essential.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery. Our tools were originally built for more technically savvy users, and now we’ve enhanced them for the creative community, working with designers to develop a tool they would love to use,” said CTO Woolery.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video!

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! I left my CTO position at L90 (Startup 3.0) ► October (1) New Video! .

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