SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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 ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. Be compulsive about scheduling time for your team.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. Look at the business and determine what's going to make sense from a development perspective in the short-term, longer-term. Do you really have control of the development?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. What did he know?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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 ? How Does it Work?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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 ? How Does it Work?

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

While you may be able to offer a price & terms for your service and not ever negotiate (especially if you’re an Internet company that sells cheaply to small businesses over the web and without onsite support & service) – you’ll still likely have to negotiate on business development deals. Your IT Reviewer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. Be compulsive about scheduling time for your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.&#. 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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In terms of the types of experts we are working with, we're fortunate that, even though we just launched, we've got a queue of hundreds of experts who want to work with us. We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. What's the story on how you started the company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. Be compulsive about scheduling time for your team.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Development Team Review Startup Activity 54

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Our values, which we focus on in our day to day work, is to be there to be a supportive, nurturing community, which honors the presence of what we're doing. Both of us went to UC Santa Barbara, and were working as nannies there. Everyone involved in this is truly there because they want to work in child care.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

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.

Incubator 212

Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work. In some instances, it will be appropriate to grandfather ongoing payments due regional distributors for their past performance. Rewarding the small VARs for working with you when the larger distributers would not is the Bro thing to do. Do Not Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work.

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Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

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. As Guy Kawasaki noted in this video interview , hard work is his secret weapon. We just want to do it.

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Tips Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 279

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. When I was interviewed for my first startup CEO job, I was expecting a $150,000 salary, but instead was offered an opportunity to contribute $50,000 to the business, and work for equity only. The components are simple - expenses and income.

Startup 92

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. When I was interviewed for my first startup CEO job, I was expecting a $150,000 salary, but instead was offered an opportunity to contribute $50,000 to the business, and work for equity only. Investors assume it will only go up with more funding.

Startup 92

Startup Outsource Development Development Team Review Equity 92

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. MySpace should be the conduit for the exchange of billions of dollars, connecting people who need work done with people who need work. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. When I was interviewed for my first startup CEO job, I was expecting a $150,000 salary, but instead was offered an opportunity to contribute $50,000 to the business, and work for equity only. Investors assume it will only go up with more funding.

Startup 48

Startup Outsource Development Development Team Review Equity 48

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Again, putting something down on paper (wireframes, graphic comps) and getting feedback from potential users can tell you most of what you would learn from a working MVP. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. I think the reason that LinkedIn is working is that there are so many other people in our micromarket (or microfield) in our networks that we end up really just being a couple hops away from someone whos perfectly qualified.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

.” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. Performance in your technology selection process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors. Internal legal reviews and required new processes were slow to finalize.

IBM 85

IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element. I’ve worked for bad bosses before. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

Startup 285

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 He then went on to work at Viacom and Juno in NYC. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. 15 minutes.

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