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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

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Beware of Mentors. " Today I had two conversations with early stage startups (see Free CTO Consulting ). In both cases, I was the mentor telling the person that the idea, as I understood it was "not great." I saw a great post from Tristan Kromer Pivoting on Investor Feedback a.k.a Either: "That’s interesting.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Your technical advisor can likely help.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO

Both Sides of the Table

In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. The way we dealt with this issue is that we took each senior exec in the company (including the CFO and the CTO) and assigned them to important accounts. ” Of course I agree with this.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

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We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros. Jeremy Zimmer, the CEO of United Talent Agency (UTA) – he’s our advisor as well. myLINGO is designed to bring new users into the movie viewing experience. Entertainment.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. How-to get that guy as your mentor - Gabriel Weinberg , September 20, 2010 Forming a couple of good mentor relationships can help bridge the gap between startup failure and success, especially for first-time entrepreneurs.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Great article – good stuff. Designed by.