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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

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. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. I'm never trying to embarrass someone. I know how it feels.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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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? The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. Ditto for enterprise software companies.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. Another example. version of their product was.

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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. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.