SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2023

What really drives uncertainty One of the smartest guys on this planet, Ed Gough, formerly chief scientist and CTO at NATO Undersea Research Center (NURC) and former technical director at the US Navy’s Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, explained to me that ignorance is at the root of uncertainty.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Every department I’ve taken control of, I have rebranded on day one before getting into the details,” says Joe Puglisi, former CIO and now investor, advisor, and board member. “It It should be BT for Business Technology, and I emphasized that the B comes before the T.

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2017

The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking. Work With the Same Advisor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Founders: Sameer Kapur (CPO), Vishnu Chakroborty (CTO), Gautam Ajjarapu (CEO).

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Instead of focusing on administrative tasks, spend time coaching, goal setting, and leading, he says. “I I do AMAs [ask me anything conversations] every six weeks,” says Pedro Canahuati, CTO at 1Password. “I Doing surveys gives you a realistic metric for how employees feel. “An That starts with an employee engagement survey.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Patel says that the startup goes beyond using credit score, which he describes as an “outdated metric”, and instead looks at thousands of data points from different providers, from side hustle income to spending habits on things like groceries and bills. It has had more than 500 patient loan applications, totaling over $4.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Using that data and specific metrics for the job in question, managers can then initiate conversations with individuals to focus on specific areas where things need attention, and provide some coaching to help fix it. As they see it, the challenge has still not really been addressed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Madan founded Nightfall in 2018 alongside CTO Rohan Sathe. From a dashboard, admins can set up automated workflows for quarantines, deletions and more, or view metrics like real-time and historical PII count by type.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 22, 2021

My conversations with Sachin Gupta, our CEO, Vishwastam Shukla, CTO, and Murali Krishna, HackerEarth’s Senior HR Generalist, brought to fore some insightful strategies that everyone can benefit from when hiring and onboarding interns this year. Our CTO, Vishy being the expert in this area, answered this for us.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Join this session with AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg and a special guest panelist as they discuss the key elements your startup needs to drive tomorrow’s next connectivity innovation breakthrough. Join a discussion with advisors who offer their expertise in evaluating future CEOs, hearing how other product leaders have made this transition.

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Daniel Bryant

JUNE 9, 2023

In previous roles, I have mainly been engaging and working directly with developers, and so it was very interesting to learn that a lot of our tactics overlap with the Field CTO and solution engineer approach. Daniel Bryant on Twitter: "Great overview of the Divvy GTM story with @sterlingmsnow at #SaaStr, from $0 to $2.5B

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like. “If

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 23, 2010

How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Apiumhub

MARCH 22, 2023

In-house teams can benefit from an experienced IT partner who can train and mentor them, raising the tech level of the team, making workdays more pleasurable, and helping team members advance their careers. In order to deliver high-quality software projects on schedule, organizations are turning to software development service providers.

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

Without going into an exhaustive list of metrics and techniques that might be used to provide feedback the following illustrations give you some ideas of what you might want to consider, but as always, there’s no silver bullet and YMMV. Illustration 2: Software environment metrics. Illustration 3: Team/product environment metrics.

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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? This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative.

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Gitprime

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The transition to becoming a manager of managers requires an entirely new set of skills: hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineering managers are fundamentally different jobs than hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers. Empowering coaching tries to let everybody feel like the change is their idea. It’s absolutely not mine.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Immediately the CTO jumps in and says they could build a recommendation engine to suggest items customers may be interested in; a 10% increase in sales thanks to product recommendations is definitely achievable. The CEO loves the idea and wants the CTO to work out the details with the team to figure out what they need to make it happen.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” We are not “finders” and usually serve the role of advisor and attorney. That's great.

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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 20, 2007

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. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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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

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Accenture

MAY 12, 2020

Evan Campbell – Managing Director and CTO, Accenture | SolutionsIQ. As we coach organizations on the use of metrics over the years, they often want to understand how they compare to industry standards. Understanding How Your Organization Compares to the Industry. Upon completing the survey, you will immediately get your results.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. 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 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Good stuff.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. 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 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24. Lara: Oh, okay.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

The NBA’s full-court press on digital technologies has revolutionized the fan, player, and team experience, thanks to accelerated deployment of cloud, analytics, AI, and computer vision technologies since the association launched its digital transformation in 2020.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One. Ema Patki, vice president of software engineering, Align.

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