SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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SoCal CTO

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? You likely are writing your first one of these. It's fine to send out documents that have older information. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean? Don't stress over format.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. In the past century, curators for business information were specialized news magazines like Forbes and Inc., Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Who should attend: Chief Information Officers across industries and sectors. Chief Digital Officers. Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. CTO at SOA Software.

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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. More information comes out.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Peter Marx: I started in the technology industry by writing software for imaging microscopes--looking at things like cell populations using early CCD cameras and understanding cell morphology; working on video compression; working on networking stuff and software for early digital telephony like ISDN and on forward.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. To answer these questions you begin reading multiple reviews for multiple businesses until you feel you have enough information to make a decision.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts?

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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. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. My first big move here, when I came to Telesign, was I felt we needed a high quality CTO. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." That's an even tougher hurdle. Yes, that's correct. Sorry, but that's the reality.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. There's complexity in being a CDN.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

The broader goal of our company is to provide people with actionable information to lead healthier lives. We then give you interesting bits of information and interesting guidance throughout your day to help you lead a more healthier life. They really encourage the lean startup methodology as the way to bring your product to market.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

Stage One: Read Your Match's "About Me" Information II. Stage Two: Send 1st Questions The second stage of communication lets you choose five simple but informative questions to ask your match. There are four rounds of Guided Communication, followed by unlimited access to eHarmony’s anonymous Open Communication system.

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SoCal CTO

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. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Alltop is a great source of information for both Paper.li and Flipboard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

And for some strange reason entrepreneurs didn’t share this information. I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. I just want to figure out what a fair valuation is.&# I figured all the VC’s talked so we should.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We then aggregate that information to teachers, for the entire classroom. Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things. It's at a more granular level.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Users who seek out these second screen apps and opportunities will be rewarded with bonus content, alternate storylines, deeper character analysis, more information, retail opportunities, games, promotions, prizes and whatever else the producers come up with simply by opening the app and swiping, touching or moving along with the show as it airs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. That way when I meet someone who says “I need X,” I can say “I know exactly the person you should talk to,” and I flip through the folder and give the contact information. That's great.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. You find some offices where the CEO or senior team have cordoned themselves off. Nom nom nom.

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SoCal CTO

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. event I did last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. And covered we did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. Leaders are intelligent, for sure.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As of writing, my twin and I serve as the Co-CEOs and Co-Presidents at LAGbook. Other people on the LAGbook Team include Josh Osemwegie (our Chief Financial Officer), Nosa Ilegbinehi (our Chief Publicity Officer), and Emmanuel Alugo (our Chief Technology Officer). We’re a team of 5.

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