SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Here are some recent great posts that I’ve come across that generally fall in the intersection of startups and CTOs. HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers. Great stuff.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. I love programming, board games, and my wife. This doesnt have to be the case.

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ryanwaggoner.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Me My Work Hire Me Contact Subscribe How to find a technical cofounder 09.10.10 These “startups&# are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer&# position. illegitimi non carborundum. Posted in Development , Entrepreneurship , Posts , Technology by Ryan W.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2011

It’s important to remember that achievements are often less dependent on your technical know-how and more dependent on how you organize and think. Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) Something Profound Engineering gave us a demo of the prototype board and software and asked, “Do you guys think we can sell a few of these boards?” Reply Jim Wolcott , on April 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm Said: Steve! Order Here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business. Start here. Having given the same advice ten times, I thought I would commit it to posterity!

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Sunday, August 15, 2010. Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Real Advice.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. However, a 2010 study found that “reduced self-control after a depleting task or during demanding periods may reflect people’s beliefs about the availability of willpower rather than true resource depletion”. Enter the Craziness.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Technical founders who don’t sell also use bad proxies (&# Harvard MBA!&# ). Reply # Sergey S. ·

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. Not convinced?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2015

You’ll read about all the different personality clashes and divergent cofounder views on the directions for the company, even as the Twitter grew at an explosive pace that’s forced the company into a multitude of different challenges – technical or otherwise.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. He was also Cofounder & CEO of Redbeacon, which allowed consumers to request bids for home services. Our Guests Joseph Shemesh (left) Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. Our Guests. Joseph Shemesh (left).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. Daymond offered to be an advisor. The cofounder was charismatic and persuasive and asking for $85k for 12% of the company. The entrepreneur launched Zomm in late 2010 and did $700k in sales that year. But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# So, why should they pick you?

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

 Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott. October 2010. September 2010. Angels and Advisors. And manufacturing - most of the time means outsourcing. April 2013.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO). Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Matt Lauzon, CEO/cofounder of Gemvara (reportedly $10m revenue) .

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. We were infatuated with tech. But we never lost the finance bug.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

But I also have a passion for helping the homeless, because I was homeless until I started my business in 2010, a year after my TED talk about being homeless. Since we operate as a remote team, anytime you are near a computer or phone, you can technically be in the office. I just published my book, “The Homeless Entrepreneur.”

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. In fact, when LinkedIn received the HBS Award in 2010 for Entrepreneurial Company of the Year, our Series A investor Mark Kvamme showed that with a one-year delay (which we deliberately did to grow the network) we closely followed the revenue model we gave in our Series A.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

None of us though that on Sept 1, 2010, our lives would be changed forever. I embarked on my journey in October 2010 while still working a full time job. I wrote my web copy myself, did my web design myself and officially launched in October 2010. We lost my brother Matthew to suicide, while he was living in NYC.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eric, love the blog.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. My only other complaint is that right now its very hard to find good technical people at all levels.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. Alan Feld, cofounder and managing partner of Vintage Partners, cautions Israeli entrepreneurs not to define their product category too narrowly. as early as a year or two after founding. Those that have are gold.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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