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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

CTO Coach 231
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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses.

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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. Very few businesses can grow organically fast enough to stay ahead of competition.

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Innovating Telecom – Emir Aboulhosn (CEO) of Ready SIM

Tech Zulu Event

” It’s a compelling thought – especially when you consider the alternative: 2 year contracts, overage charges, hours of dealing with customer service reps. Sell it as needed and remove the need for long term contracts. They do this by getting a customer locked in on a long term contract and not worrying beyond that.”

Mobile 86
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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Our ABCSearch business is quite large--we do over 10 billion searches across our network and syndicate--and we have deals with all the search engines, Ask.com, Yahoo, all of the domain parking companies, and many contextual ad companies. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do.

PPC 113
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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