SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Do you have dollars to pay for development?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. We had to find other, more diverse ways to allocate our resources and grow businesses. Dave Fink: I was one of the original partners at Sciences, and Jonathan was CTO of the e-commerce staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. After 6 months – you know. You REALLY know.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. That's a big part of it.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Are they asking good questions?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Ways to Make Your MVP More Minimum We spent quite a bit of time talking about a complexity scale and the kinds of resources you can viably use at different levels of complexity. Simple MVPs get built with less the 3 Programmer Months worth of effort (that's 3 months a single programmer working full-time).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

He then hired a personal assistant who would read his emails for him, and then sort them by projects, and hand them to him presorted. That saved him hours of time every week, and so our inspiration was to replicate that experience without needing to hire an expensive assistant. What are your backgrounds? Any funding yet?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? But generally I'm going to favor being open. "We are doing something in mobile advertising.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? But generally I'm going to favor being open. "We are doing something in mobile advertising.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We give visibility to the location, status, and history of resources in healthcare. We change the paradigm, and we only do an entire institution, the entire hospital or enterprise--every square foot--anywhere resources can travel. We're software-as-a-service, all of its encrypted, and we're more secure than hospitals.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. I’m a long way into development and I’m 90% done and we are having issues getting it completed See Symptoms of a Weak Development Team and Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early. Have an open discussion with them about what you are trying to achieve through the questions.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s great advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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. Imagine if the ambassadors from Seattle organized a dinner with 8 entrepreneurs, the CTO of Amazon, the head of Xbox and the head of marketing for Starbucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition.

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