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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. These companies are very early-stage and definitely have not shown product/market fit. The startup founder is definitely not ready to hire a CTO. Far from it. They are very early.

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Xavient Acquires Vision360

socalTECH

Simi Valley-based Xavient Information Systems , a provider of IT outsourcing services, and Virginia-based Vision360 , a provider of custom software development, testing, and other services for the telecommunications industry, said today that they are in a definitive merger agreement, where Xavient will acquired Vision360.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Scale your funding requests to the value of your startup today, consisting of assets, contracts, and intellectual property you currently own.

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. If you’re interested in sports tech (or want to argue with a 49ers fan) you should definitely follow Greg.

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Blackboard Acquires Elluminate and Wimba

Tech Zulu Event

The technologies are used to supplement traditional courses, to support full distance learning courses, and to facilitate a variety of other collaborative interactions including virtual office hours, team meetings, professional development, student projects and mentoring and tutoring opportunities.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0: