SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? The list is very long.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

While you may be able to offer a price & terms for your service and not ever negotiate (especially if you’re an Internet company that sells cheaply to small businesses over the web and without onsite support & service) – you’ll still likely have to negotiate on business development deals. Biv Dev teams?

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. It's a pretty credible team and we're starting to staff up on the product and development side. You, as an entrepreneur, are expected to go though due diligence.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things? Becka Klauber Richter: It really comes from the heart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do it yourself and barter for services. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do it yourself and barter for services. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an amazing service that that enables the exchange of micro payments for any variety of activity. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. Fuel Micro Jobs. The world is flat, but it’s also poor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do it yourself and barter for services. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Juno provided a free email service. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. 15 minutes.

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