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135 Articles match "Help","Resource"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Robin's latest startup is Internships.com (www.internships.com), an online site focused on aggregating internship opportunities and providing resources to potential interns. They just can't reach into the class of freshmen, sophomores, or juniors to help companies get better candidates. We took a little trip and said--what are career centers doing, at the most elite schools at America, to help prepare One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously
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Monday, March 8, 2010
It helps to get to know people better. Native Linking to other blogs – For example, many people know that I love VentureHacks because it’s a great resource for entrepreneurs and I finally met Babak Nivi (aka Nivi). Notice As my blog started getting authentic traffic I stopped asking for this help.
I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice .
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Are these updates helpful to you? We share job leads, encouragement, and anything that can help one another." This is a friendly and helpful lot! We want to empower and encourage you, promote ideas that will help America deal with the economic crisis, and share job leads." Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different size/type companies that somewhat echoes my experience. ( Roger Smith ) This helps explain where I normally play. My role is to work as part of the team to (1) understand related technologies and technical opportunities, (2) understand and help drive alignment around a vision of where the business should go, and (3) mesh those together to help make disciplined, proactive technical decisions. I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I asked Jon Bischke , founder of eduFire how he empowers his site’s teachers to promote their classes–and thereby help eduFire grow. 8221; We like to impress upon our teachers to think to themselves not just as “I come to eduFire and students find me,” but also, “I come to eduFire and I have tools and resources to go out and reach an audience” via the platform that we have set up.
Got a Have you noticed that the fastest growing web sites are masters at getting their users to promote them? How do you build that kind of promotion machine?
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Rather they should get a part-time Acting CTO who can help close the gap. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum . Bottom line – if as you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge the gap. Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. It’s not comfortable on either side of the table. More on the Role of I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools
“ Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts)
Social Media - Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter. Helpful Resources for Getting Social Media Traffic : The Social Media Manual and Promoting Yourself on Twitter (by geekpreneur “If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I'm hoping that others will help point me to other resources around this topic. A few things we discussed: Focus . I looked at a couple of specific examples, where I ask for help from my followers. You can see examples like eLearning Learning which gets more traffic than my eLearning blog. Other Thoughts Common questions I get at the end of a presentation like this are: Where can I go to get help getting going? Where I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.).
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software said today that it has released new software aimed at the storage resource management market. According to Quest, the firm's new product, Storage Horizon, measures storage usage, helps with provisioning, and provides automated storage analysis and reporting. The new product is the firm's first product addressing the storage resource management (SRM) market. The SRM product comes from Quest's acquisition of storage software provider MonoSphere in January of this year. MonoSphere was venture backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital,
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Friday, October 10, 2008
According to Cornerstone OnDemand, Barry-Wehmiller will use its products to help foster growth and development of the company's workforce. Cornerstone OnDemand is venture backed by Bay Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners; the firm's software is used for managing human resources.
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand, which develops software-as-a-service for talent and employee management, said this week that it has signed on Barry-Wehmiller Companies, a capital equipment provider and engineering consulting services firm. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Updated 12/7/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Criterion Resources, Events Sites: www.criterionresources.com , Events at EventBrite , Events Self-description: "Out of work? Come attend a Criterion Resources seminar, a half-day event held quarterly. Obtain helpful advice on networking, interviewing and other job-related issues. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Sorry this didn't make it out on Monday as usual - I've been to so many events of late it's taken a while to write them all up.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives?
Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. Their investment should be structured with the help of a good attorney who understands the mutual goal of maximum leverage of funds with minimum interference in your business decisions.
Remember the admonition that investment from such close sources carries
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Honor a Hero Hire a Vet” Job and Resource Fair, by the United States Veterans Initiative and the State of California Employment Development Department (EDD) . I'll be there helping out PinkSlipMixers and McGyver.tv/Workforce Added 11/8/09 by Todd Zebert Name: The Association of Professional Consultants Sites: Self-description: "The Association of Professional Consultants (APC) is the premier resource Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. A Special Notice: Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10, 2009,
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