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SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2012
I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Your technical advisor can likely help. I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. Do you have dollars to pay for development?
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 19, 2012
I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? You likely are writing your first one of these. This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Founder : Ummm.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 11, 2013
Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." They may wonder if it can be built technically, but I (or other CTOs) can answer that question without building any code.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Of the 8 founders at the dinner, half of them had a design/ui/ux background.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 22, 2014
Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. So that pretty much helped to influence our design. We need to sit less, and move more.
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