SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? 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?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. Quality tech news from around the web. What a boring mess. Written by Arman Tabatabai.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. Still, I have some concerns.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I actually started my first technology startup out of Stanford twelve years ago. The market is so ripe for something to be done in this space--it''s a mssive market, and there''s massive spend, and pervasive pain. Eric Schleicher: I''ve been involved in technology since the late 90''s. What were you two doing before Porch?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. Unless the thing you’re building has real value to someone, it’s just a vanity project, no matter the technology.

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