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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. [and and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. I’d love to get some feedback.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. What did he know?

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. As Harvard Professor Michael Porter notes, competitive advantage is not derived by doing things, “better, faster, cheaper.” Rather, it is often the result of doing, “different things.”.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. The MySpace product management and dev team, need to bite of smaller projects, get them out more quickly, and make sure they are exposed to everyone visiting the site.

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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

Guard against a preclusion that would deny you from utilizing the IP developed during the course of executing the agreement. Craft terms which ensure you will not beholden to the BDC with respect to your ability to subsequently deploy and profit from jointly developed technology. I am not a lawyer and I never played one on TV.

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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules. Internal legal reviews and required new processes were slow to finalize.

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