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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

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The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. This happens when a founder raises money in an initial round, spends most of it on in-house or outsourced development, and ends up with a product that is 90% done.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 13

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Round 13 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is here! The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. Yes, that Qt. What a great time to be building web apps! Good fortunes. Many fixes to long-broken tests.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

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Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Some offer specialized skill sets like expertise in a particular programming language or framework, or specific domain knowledge. Ensure that you investigate the designers' past work, samples of their work product, and their process. cto , product , saas

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5 Keys To Spending Your Time On The Right Work Items

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in the classic book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Rule your technology, don’t let it rule you. Why is this so hard?

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Many Entrepreneurs Are Too Busy, But Not Productive

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a new book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Rule your technology, don’t let it rule you. Why is this so hard?

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AVST Buys Application Developer

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Foothill Ranch-based Applied Voice & Speech Technologies , which develops unified communications applications product, said this week that it has acquired the assets of Beacon Solutions , a developer of an open development software framework which runs on its products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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5 Competitive Drivers Which Limit Your Growth Ability

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from around the globe. Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Way back in 1979, Michael E. Either way you lose.