YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2011

Swiftsharing ( www.swiftsharing.net ) is a new and growing social network site that has seen over 8,000 members signed up and has more than 20,000 posts since launching in January this year. “In five years, we hope to be the social network of high school and attract more college age students to the site.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? How tight is that integration?

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk.

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SoCal CTO

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. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2011

He was also previously CTO of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment, which operates a subscription based PC/Mobile/TV service for music and movies in France and Germany. Bitsmedia currently develops iPhone applications for Universal Music in Europe and Australia.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. Social networks become more valuable with more users; consumers’ discounts become larger when more people join the coupon; commerce marketplaces benefit from increasing liquidity, and so forth.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It needs to be funded to be successful. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size. What do you do if you don't know the size? What are the key developer skills that are needed? Is this a Wordpress hack? Is it big data? Deep algorithms?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It needs to be funded to be successful. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size. What do you do if you don't know the size? What are the key developer skills that are needed? Is this a Wordpress hack? Is it big data? Deep algorithms?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Become a visible expert.

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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. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Mahalo offers you the choice of sign-up / registration via a host of social networks (powered by JanRain). At the heart of this is two main advantages of having social network sign-up / registration. Allowing the user to click on the Sign-Up / Register via a social network such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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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. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. 10 cents per DAU.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. There may be lots of pages.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

I’ve seen many founders that don’t have a CTO and outsourced development. It doesn’t all have to be there on day one, but founders should be able to show that the can attract that top talent. Speed is also critical.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion. It has to do with the future of social networking. If you bring a nice bottle of chilled sake they’ll always remember it was from you. I like that idea. I shall be ordering a case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We’ve recently added talks from: Former US CTO and current tech advisor to the White House, Todd Park; former Facebook engineering director Joceyln Goldfein; Dropbox engineering VP Aditya Agarwal; and KISSMetrics founder Hiten Shah. We’ve tagged the talks by topic , so you can zero in on what interests you most.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness. (The alcohol, not the bagpiper.)

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Due to the incredible power represented by these networks, we believe that managers need a system to understand and monitor the ever-changing value of this key asset.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. "We RollSale is reducing the need for expensive middlemen in the used car supply chain by providing dealers with a simple, inexpensive, mobile-centric social network for buying and selling inventory.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Face.com was founded in 2007 by Gil Hirsch (CEO), Yaniv Taigman (CTO), Moti Sneiberg and Eden Shochat (Eden is also one of Face.com’s investors and today serves as a partner in Gensis).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With Vine, you’re building a backend system that stores video and a front-end that is a simple viewer and an easy way to share content out to social networks,” says Thadd Selden, Worry Free’s CTO. He says that Vine is a relatively straightforward app that leverages the iPhone’s processing power to compress video files.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

Now, when your friend’s birthday comes round, one person can identify a gift, click on the product page’s Group Gifting widget, and invite a group of friends via social networks to contribute to paying for the gift online. An organizer can invite the gift-giving participants either through social networks or email invitations.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

As the Head of the Technology and Professional Services at Integrien, Zarik worked closely with other executives and investors at Clearstone Ventures to create an attractive enterprise level software solution which was successfully acquired by VMware, Inc. Later in his career, Zarik founded Zema Enterprises, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2008

Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. My main points were: Social Everywhere - I work with a lot of different shapes and sizes of companies and it's interesting how each one has opportunities to leverage its users to form different kinds of communities, create connections, encourage contribution, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness. (The alcohol, not the bagpiper.)

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Dir, Global Partnerships, UN Foundation David Jones CEO, Havas & Global CEO, Euro RSCG Worldwide Raymie Stata SVP & CTO, Yahoo! an iPad 2 Killer?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Jim Hendler (Professor at RPI and technology expert at data.gov). Beth Noveck (United States deputy chief technology officer for open government). Nigel Shabolt (Professor at University of Southampton and technology expert at data.gov.uk). The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. challenges most businesses face, Scott has focused his own efforts in helping his clients and their families battle Cybercrime, Cyberbullying, and other harmful technologies. In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T. Show Quotes .

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. The implications of the propriety vision were not good. Rockmelt and the next wave of innovation.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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