SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. While You Are Building Your MVP Look for the following Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. And when you have Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early. Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I quite often get a call where a founder raised $150K of initial money and has spend $120K on in-house or outsourced development and the software is 90% done. Most often the failure is both a result of the founder not doing the right things and because the developer over-promised and failed to ask the right questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Accounting?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. We got really good at figuring out how to get wide distribution for our software, and how to monetize that software in unique ways.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. For the most part, our competitors offer fairly generic technology platforms that allow professional software developers to build a huge variety of mobile apps. How does it work? What is the future of Journey?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. I’m a long way into development and I’m 90% done and we are having issues getting it completed See Symptoms of a Weak Development Team and Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How can we address this risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What other kinds of systems will we likely need? Accounting?

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