Andrea is the founder and president of 1-800-CTO, a consulting company that helps growth companies formulate their technology strategy and architecture.
Andrea is a seasoned dot-com entrepreneur who has directed the creation and management of over a dozen Internet properties. She is the former Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of EchoFactor.com - the web's largest repository of free XML news feeds. Prior to founding EchoFactor, she was the Director of Technology of Infonautics Corporation -- an Internet information company. Before venturing into the dot-com arena, Andrea was involved in the development of software for medical applications - first with GE and later with Picker International.
Andrea earned a Bachelor of Science in computational biology form Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in computer science from Villanova University.
Don't dilute your gene pool. When you are deciding who to go into business with your first ten people in the company are the absolutely most critical. If those people don't believe, if those people aren't engaged with you, you're not going to be able to move it forward to the next step. You need ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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