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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. It's a great talk.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. Emily Scherberth – Founder of Symphony PR.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Patent Lawsuit 6. Build a SWAT team 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location ► January (2) 2. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

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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

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Build a SWAT team 3.

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