Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Don’t assume you can outsource the implementation decisions. Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business.

Ideas 126

Ideas Writing Examples Outsource 126

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What do we build in-house or outsource? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What do we build in-house or outsource? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. TechZulu: What is Porter?

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87