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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What metrics will you need for future funding rounds or operations? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Graphic design? UI/UX design? How big is the anticipated development team?

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them. . What did he know?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Are there specs?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Are there specs?

CTO Hire 259
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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction&# , whatever. To do the right activities you need to start with a top down assessment with what you’re trying to achieve with your marketing. I love that saying.

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

socalTECH

They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. How to do fundraising, how to pitch a deal, how to think about managing your product, or managing your development team. It's designed to be very open, and basically foster collaboration and working together.

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

Another of Mac’s stories highlights the degree to which Steve treated his designs as works of art. That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”.

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