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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Only go social when they go social. If you need more help on really getting inside the mind of programmers, two great resources are Dilbert and Foxtrot (the little kid is a budding rock star developer). Is this a Wordpress hack?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Only go social when they go social. If you need more help on really getting inside the mind of programmers, two great resources are Dilbert and Foxtrot (the little kid is a budding rock star developer). Is this a Wordpress hack?

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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. This is a great configuration for a starting team. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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Ways to Make Your MVP More Minimum We spent quite a bit of time talking about a complexity scale and the kinds of resources you can viably use at different levels of complexity. If you do not break it down into small pieces, its hard to make progress with part-time resources, freelancers, etc.

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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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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I'm married to Mike Freehling , M&A and financial management consultant. More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR. My father ran the first American diplomatic mission in Hiroshima after the end of the occupation (seven years after the atomic bomb).

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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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. Otis Chandler – Founder and CEO of Goodreads.