TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ensure that you investigate the designers' past work, samples of their work product, and their process. Quality of Work: The end product should not only look good but function as expected. While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills.

Software Development 295

Software Development Software Review Develop Development 295

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

The idea really came from a lot of the online personal finance tools--like Wesabe, Mint, and Quicken Online--where the world has adopted pulling in credit card data, and you can use it, you can categorize it. There's a bunch of SaaS products, like NetSuite, with nowhere with the breadth that our tool has, but companies are using that.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. The idea of waiting, asking, and waiting for answers is gone. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. It’s not merely that you need a scalable idea to grow. If you have such an idea and don’t grow fast enough, competitors will. We sold the company when we hit $36 million in bookings and $16 million in SaaS GAAP revenue. Growth, again.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review 390

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. Hiring is difficult no matter where you are.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188