SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. The conversation with Bob was about what the composition of advisors should look like. Connected Advisors? Investors discount this.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Featuring presentations and panel discussion by experts on Linked-in, Facebook, and other internal and external social media tools.

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JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO. But as a CEO you can’t rely solely on this information.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. It felt like a bad time share presentation. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

You often hear about people talking about how being with kids makes you present in the moment, and understand the things in life that are important to us. I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. What's your background, how did you start the company?

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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. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. The CEO had 60-page Powerpoint presentations analyzing every micro detail of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Rob is driven to learn.

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