Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 2, 2020
His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 26, 2010
Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What do we build in-house or outsource? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 4, 2014
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 31, 2013
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2010
Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 13, 2013
Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. TechZulu: What is Porter?
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