SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. … And it’s not just inexperienced CTOs. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. But my developers want to go into way too much detail. In fact, they often don’t really understand the business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 14, 2016

On Tuesday November 1st at Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square CTO Connection is hosting the New York Startup CTO Summit (15th event globally in the last 2 years). If you're technical and manage developers, this exclusive, intimate (<200 attendees) event is the perfect chance to connect with and learn from your peers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. ” Detecting issues in source code.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

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. In twin reports , API marketplace RapidAPI found that 90.5%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Cofounder and CEO Amrita Saigal says that Kudos is the first and only disposable baby diaper to earn the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. What’s to stop the big players from developing a more sustainable, cotton-based diaper. million seed round of financing today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Fleet arose from an open source project called Osquery that was created by CTO Zach Wasserman together with Moonfire Ventures partner Mike Arpaia. Wasserman was a software engineer on the security team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and cofounded two companies, Kolide and Dactiv, before settling in at Fleet.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

When I talk with early-stage companies, often the discussion starts with them asking me about Hiring a CTO for Your Startup , or Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup or How to Find Programmers for Your Startup. The startup founder is definitely not ready to hire a CTO. Far from it. Great post Gabriel!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Other investors include Github CTO Jason Warner, Seamless founder Jason Finger, Stripe COO Claire Johnson, Ankit Agarwal from Greenhawk Capital, as well as other institutional investors such as 2048 , Dynamo , and Atypical. The company has launched nextmv Cloud to allow developers, not just operations researchers, to use its software.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

The company was founded in 2017 by Beam CEO Viveka Hulyalkar, a former McKinsey consultant, and CTO Alex Sadhu, a former Tinder iOS engineer. The third thing we’re going to focus on is product development. Beam is partnered with 100 brands, including Instacart, Parade, IKEA, Roots Canada and more. million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That may sound awfully familiar, but Directus , which is announcing a $7 million Series A round led by True Ventures today, is taking a different approach to most of its competitors by combining traditional developer tools with a no-code approach to offer a highly flexible open-source data platform for its enterprise users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Sadones was the CTO at Multiposting, while Gautier cofounded employee sourcing and hiring platform Work4. Khoury was the director of business development at Work4. .” Before launching Reveal in 2020, Bouchez was the CEO of Multiposting, an HR tech startup, until 2018, when it was acquired by SAP. ”

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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. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? What's going to go wrong?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Cofounder Dani Grant explained to TechCrunch that many small and early-stage companies don’t have the deep pockets to hire a consultant when they run into a challenge, as many charge exorbitant rates and they often have a minimum time requirement. Invests in design-focused founders at Combine. Jam raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Lenovo famously hired Ashton Kutcher as a product engineer to help develop the Yoga 2 tablet, on which I assume you are all reading this post. He also cofounded marketing agency Maximum Effort alongside George Dewey, which has made its own impact over the past several years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

While Strava and Fatmap will remain separate products for now, Strava said that it will decide in the future whether Fatmap will live on as a standalone product once the technical integration has taken place. “This concept fuels much of our strategic thinking and product roadmap.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. He worked with Brodacka at Flowbox, where Brodacka was responsible for designing and developing image processing libraries for processors and graphics cards. . Image Credits: Enso.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Synthesis AI , a startup developing a platform that generates synthetic data to train AI systems, today announced that it raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by 468 Capital with participation from Sorenson Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures, Bee Partners, PJC, iRobot Ventures, Boom Capital and Kubera Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Modular , a startup creating a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, has raised $100 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from GV (Google Ventures), SV Angel, Greylock and Factory. times faster versus on their native frameworks, Lattner claims. ” Ambitious much? ” He might be right.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Historically, systems for providing such data are inefficient and clunky, a problem Pinwheel’s cofounders recognized when they were working on a startup that helped companies provide pre-tax benefits to their employees. . Pinwheel plans to use the fresh funds to triple its 70-person employee base, two-thirds of whom are engineers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

previously cofounded Turbine Analytics, an investment information processing company based in Poland. “Symmetrical supports technical decision makers by releasing IT capacity engaged in developing payroll capabilities to focus on core technologies. ” Smole?

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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. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Developers create a standard algorithm for compressing and decompressing video, a codec, which can easily be distributed and run on common computing platforms. They’re building the platform to be compatible with all the major ML distribution and development publishers like TensorFlow, ONNX, Apple’s CoreML, and others.

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Mentormate

MAY 22, 2018

But what do you do when it’s time to figure out how to find an app developer? How to Find an App Developer. Plus: the 5 Kinds of Developers You’ll Meet in Your Search. You’ll likely encounter developers from at least a few of the following five categories: Freelancer. Offshore development shop.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That’s not especially surprising from Burton, considering he’s the CEO of Observe , an observability platform developer co-started in 2017 by Jacob Leverich, Jonathan Trevor, Jon Watte, and Philip Unterbrunner. Burton has a distinguished career, one unsurprisingly rooted in developer operations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

CEO Ryan Wang says that the new capital will be put toward product development, including schedule optimization algorithms and integrations with HR software, and launching an initiative, CX Scholars, that’ll commit a percentage of Assembled’s revenue to continuing education for support workers. ”

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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 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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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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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

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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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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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 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

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

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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