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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? How tight is that integration?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Do fewer structured activities. they have purchasing intent ).*. Here’s why.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot. It needs to be funded to be successful. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size. What do you do if you don't know the size? Is this a Wordpress hack?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot. It needs to be funded to be successful. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size. What do you do if you don't know the size? Is this a Wordpress hack?

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. It depends on the business, people, technologies, etc.