Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Build qualified advisory board.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Build qualified advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Build qualified advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue. Build qualified advisory board.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Coming back with no matches is not a very satisfying result and you generally will lose customers that you may have even paid to acquire. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc. Before you determine your specific strategy a few questions to think through: A.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Coming back with no matches is not a very satisfying result and you generally will lose customers that you may have even paid to acquire. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc. Before you determine your specific strategy a few questions to think through: A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

It's really about providing a customized approach, and the best experience for both the dog and dog owners. If you log in with Facebook, you can browse posts, and you'll be able to leverage your social graph, Twitter, and YouTube to auto post photo updates across your social networks. How did the company come about?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

It's really about providing a customized approach, and the best experience for both the dog and dog owners. If you log in with Facebook, you can browse posts, and you'll be able to leverage your social graph, Twitter, and YouTube to auto post photo updates across your social networks. How did the company come about?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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. The second bullet, getting feedback from customers is most often not valid either. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. equity debate.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. There may be lots of pages.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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