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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? How big is the anticipated development team?

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. Startups provide introductions and Tony and fellow panelists provide feedback in real-time.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Administrators?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Administrators?

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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