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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. Review the code being built. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. Strategic Technical Advisor. Why do this without the right technical advisor?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Who’s helping you with fundraising? Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Tell me about the business.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Review the code being built.

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10 Ways To Become A Web Influencer In Today’s Market

Startup Professionals Musings

A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Guy Kawasaki, in his classic book “ Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions ” provides some in-depth recommendations on the “how to” of influence and pull technology.

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7 Government Small Business Grants to Apply For in May 2024

Tech.Co

Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately? The STTR program is also focused on the transfer of technology from the research institution, rather than just the research alone. 🌎 Or appear as if you're in another country?

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. “It was running fine.”

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. Proving your Business Model Works - Build, Define, and Review But how do you prove your numbers? Finally, review the numbers with your partners. Apply costs to each channel. We need to make sure we have these numbers.

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