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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. Is this person a CTO or a developer? By the way, do you know that most development teams use peer review of code to help ensure good development practices.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

Your IT Reviewer. This is the “deal prevention” team in many big corporations. They’ve had years of business-unit managers buying software solutions they didn’t need and that eventually become shelfware. Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department). Biv Dev teams?

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? Most of the great software startups that I’ve been involved in have at least one technical co-founder (and many have more than one.) Was it a case of needing Homework?

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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. Like startup investors several layers deep, parent company executives often demand approval rights and exert their power, without understanding the issues of starting a new business.

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