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Initial Conversation with a CTO or Technical Advisor

SoCal CTO

Are you a non-technical startup founder who’s about to go have a conversation with a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) or Technical advisory type person? Maybe you have questions about the types of developers you need and even whether you need a Startup CTO or Developer or both. I’d prefer that you don’t make the same mistakes.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

As the organizer of the LA CTO Forum , I get lots of inquiries by job seekers and people looking for CTO / VP Engineering talent. I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? In this talk, we spent most of our time on Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One and how they should be helping you: Specify the right things to be built.

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide. I just want the cost, timeline and impact.

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s?

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Bottom line is that before you go and build your MVP: Define your MVP really well on paper and Document Your MVP for a Developer Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Make Sure You look at Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder Figure out the Evidence of Traction you really need Get a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile (..)

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