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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. what format would you and the developer want that in? It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

That died with waterfall software development. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? Ditto for enterprise software companies. It’s “lifetime value&# of a customer. Each quarter you should review your model.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Another example. version of their product was.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room. Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night. making this their first SWLA.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? But I don’t think so.