SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

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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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

Instead, what they had was a contract that promised Agile Software Development with Rapid Iterations and an incredibly vague list of features. In all four cases, I would claim that what's at fault is a common misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. My belief is that you shouldn't sign that contract.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services. Plus, you still have course management and grades. First of all, what is 15desks?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve talked before about initial conversations with founders and the questions I’m likely going to ask Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. These questions are critical background for any developer at any level. Of course, it’s never complete.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

When we interview potential developers, it’s amazing to me how many can’t answer questions that every student in a sophomore level computer science course should be able to answer. Developers are very quite when bugs, features, changes are being discussed and only come back with questions later. I used to teach this same stuff.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

You definitely should be having these conversations in order to find out what things you might not be considering ( Questions Developers Should Ask a Startup Founder ) that are going to be important to your startup that as a non-technical founder you just don’t know to ask. Of course, when you go to have this conversation be prepared.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

Now, they were able to raise enough money in the last 3 months to launch a product along with all the necessary software development to launch a pilot program for validating the idea. Of course, that doesn’t help here. So … I have probably more questions than answers. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. It needs to be a conversation.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

Now, they were able to raise enough money in the last 3 months to launch a product along with all the necessary software development to launch a pilot program for validating the idea. Of course, that doesn’t help here. So … I have probably more questions than answers. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. It needs to be a conversation.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! Individual clips will be posted soon. Diamond Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! Individual clips will be posted soon. Diamond Sponsor.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Developers rightly need a lot of detail to get at cost, timeline and impact. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? This can take the form of a local university, online courses, going through relevant books, etc. How can we address this risk? What technology research is required?

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