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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. Who are the customers? What problem is your product trying to solve?

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. False Confidence.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. False Confidence.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system. Lee Essner: That''s a great question.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. It was May.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. No Dave S. =