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MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. “They’re probably a little ahead of their time,&# she said.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2010

In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. Now, most often technical advisors are part of a broader advisory board.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. And we wanted a head of global marketing. It’s more convenient for both sides.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. There are over 100 different questionnaires on the website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. A good overall example is the synergy between Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as long-time Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Feels a real passion and love for their role.

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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. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. You got it.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Passion for what they do.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Aaron Crayford: Before Rippol, I was the CEO and CTO of Vusion, a company that provided HD video streaming. Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student. We've been running for eleven months now, with me and another eight people working full time, and about ten people part time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. Jeff Curie: It is a very advanced piece of technology. He ran DARPA research out of UC Irvine for almost a decade, until stepping out and focusing purely on entrepreneurial efforts. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Passion for what they do.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

But then you need to research that firm and what other deals they’ve done over the past year. Never stop in the ink is dry on the contract and the money is in your bank account. Put in 2 hours of research for every 1 hour meeting. Having a list of VCs to approach is of course is a good start. That’s fantasy land. Start early.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. Hiring is difficult no matter where you are. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Meredith Publishing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. A good overall example is the synergy between Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as long-time Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Feels a real passion and love for their role.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine. Another thing is the ROI studies we've had done outside our firm by Nucleus Research. I've always worked on financial systems.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. Intimidation alone of finding the right team kills many new ventures before they had a chance.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

Key early figures include CTO Doug Palmer, a pioneer in the development of video-over-IP technology who also worked at San Diego’s Linkabit and HNC Software, and chief engineer David Eames, one of HNC’s original staff scientists and an expert in neural networks and parallel computing applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. or; “I don’t have enough money to hire my team yet. We’ve met three times over 18 months and you still have no team. How can I hire a team without any money?

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Robin Richards: After selling Notification Technology to Blackboard, we kind of sat around and said--where is there a marketplace, that can do some good, really needs to be developed using technology, and where there is no major player involved. It looks like you bought an existing property as part of startup up the site?

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