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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again! The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ). Build prototypes and/or product.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. Irony, hey?).

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. 1) The economy sucks, but you guys are hiring.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. 1) The economy sucks, but you guys are hiring.

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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

Xconomy

There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises. From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. The last 10% takes the other half.

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