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Not Betting on Flash

SoCal CTO

I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? That's my bet.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. " The emotions around sunk costs run deep. Good stuff from Jason.

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Los Angeles Web Developer

SoCal CTO

The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML. The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies. Of course, this is a bit more complicated given the issues raised in Startup CTO or Developer , but maybe leave that aside for now.

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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

Tech Zulu Event

Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO. Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. Goko, a new HTML5 games company based in Redwood City California is set to help game developers easily distribute and monetize social games.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Dismissable?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It needs to be funded to be successful. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size. What do you do if you don't know the size? What are the key developer skills that are needed? Is this a Wordpress hack? Is it big data? Deep algorithms?

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