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Partnering With Product Design Firms

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- "Partnering With Product Design Firms To Accelerate Your Product Development Cycle" PDMA. A panel of both service providers AND satisfied client companies will share their experiences using and providing contracted resources. See [link] (more).

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6 Reasons To Build A Working Model Of Your Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. Reduce the time to production and rollout.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. What do we build in-house or outsource?

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5 Sources Of Ideas That Turn Into The Next Big Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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STEC Opens Development Center In India

socalTECH

Santa Ana-based STEC , the developer of solid state disk drives and technology, said this week that it has opened up a new storage innovation center in Pune, India. According to STEC, the new design center will provide software development resources for its products.

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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. What about outsourcing?

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5 Generators Of Customer Pain Conducive To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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