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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Does it need to throttle potential malicious activity? How big is the anticipated development team?

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5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity? Is there a step-by-step wizard?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity? Is there a step-by-step wizard?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. There has certainly been a storm of activity over this question. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system?

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