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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO.

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

TechCrunch

The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition.

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

CEO Sean Knapp says that the new capital — which brings Ascend’s total to $50 million — will be used to expand the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams while extending Ascend’s platform to support greater automation. “This is an exciting time for data engineering.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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Data observability startup Observe secures $70M

TechCrunch

Engineering teams can spend up to half their time on ‘unplanned work’ investigating and fixing these problems. Leverich was the director of engineering at Splunk while Unterbrunner was a founding engineer at Snowflake. Burton has a distinguished career, one unsurprisingly rooted in developer operations.

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3 Biggest Mistakes Founder CEOs Make When Building that Crucial First Team

Battery Ventures

Far too often, technical CEOs who have brilliant ideas cannot execute on them, leading to their replacement by seasoned CEOs. After interviewing a few external candidates, I often see founders go with the familiar option, choosing the cofounder or early employee who is like-minded. Avoid being in their business every day.

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

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. Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em?