Most often I'm being brought in the early stage, Start-up or Expansion (as the company looks at new product lines). Technical Strategy I support the technical team to: review short and long-term technology strategies to help direct strategic technical decisions and help to ensure appropriate technology usage, help define needed technical research activities, assess new and emerging technologies to determine application to business needs, help determine resource needs within business constraints, review and influence business and technical processes to help balance competing needs

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Tell me a bit about your background. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.

You want to get out of that uncomfortable negative cash flow period, or accelerate your profitability so that you can reinvest in more staff, resources or product upgrades.  What my coach explained to me was that we’re all basically running in a circle trying to balance our productivity with our personal life, in order to maintain a healthy level of stress.  That’s when you’re most productive The Red Zone Effect A

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. 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 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

Brea-based IMS Company , a manufacturer of in-flight portable entertainment players and related products, said Friday that it has acquired Flight Deck Resources, a provider of hardware for flight deck management on airplanes. According to IMS, Flight Deck Resources will become a new division, which will be known as IMS Flight Deck. The Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. The products are sold to commercial airlines, corporate aviation, air cargo, general aviation and aircraft fleet operators. ...Tags:

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Irvine-based Epicor Software , a developer of ERP and other business software, disclosed Tuesday that it has signed on South American firm American Glass Products (AGP) Columbia. Epicor said the AGP will use its enterprise resource planning products. ...Tags: Tags: software planning resource enterprise columbia epico Financial impact of the sale was not disclosed.

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

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops human resources and talent management software, said Thursday that it has linked with a firm to reseller its products in the Asia Pacific region. The firm will resell Cornerstone OnDemand's SaaS products in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Tags: cornerstone ondemand human resources The firm said that it has partnered with Talent2, a talent management and HR outsourcing firm headquartered in Australia. Cornerstone OnDemand said that Talent2 counts Coles Group Ltd.,