SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Early-stage companies shouldn’t: outsource core product development, have consulting firms build it for them to speed up time-to-market, shouldn’t hire too many business people until product is complete and early product/market fit tested. Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am.

Startup 389

Startup Slides Outsource Development Sales 389

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APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

Organization 280

Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

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MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. He had a version of StackOverflow installed here and I thought it was a great resource for entrepreneurs.

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 286

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

YouTube today announced its new app for iPhone and iPod touch weeks after its license with Apple to develop and preload the app in the iPhone iPod touch expired. Five Year Contract. The presentations have speaker notes, full-screen mode and can be swiped between slides. Now Available on the App Store. billion From Ads.

Google 69

Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). Give yourself a month. Keep the day job.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175