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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

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Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky. The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

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Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? Avoid them.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Maybe this meme will help.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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Testing is what helps determine whether you’re really on to something. Will (many more) millions help you get five years into one?&#. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. It drives perverse incentives.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. If you don’t know WHY you’re adding features don’t do it just because you have a development team.

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