SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. 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? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” In my journey to better understand the sales process, my management team and I developed a sales methodology. I’m going to set up the framework today and in future posts I’ll drill down into each area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Every organization needs a talent pipeline that holds leaders at all levels accountable for identifying and developing internal difference makers, and nurturing networks of external talent. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules. Develop leaders who deliver results and inspire.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Watching him develop over the past 4.5 Kevin not only built relationships with many of the younger, more emerging professionals in all of the US funds but he has also developed a very active investor relationships with Asian funds in particular in Japan, South Korea and China and in Northern Europe.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There are CEOs that always seem to guide their companies to the right place at the right time and drive their stock valuations up. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Quality tech news from around the web. Obsessions.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. Let them guide you. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Yet, actors remain a main part to character development (based on personality), as well as the ‘performance’ of the film. With this new development, we often think of the dramatic roles of Gollum in Lord of the Rings and Caesar in this year’s release, Planet of the Apes: Rise of the Apes, played by Andy Serkins.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. &# The classic framework for analyzing a firm’s strategic position is Michael Porter’s Five Forces. Legendary customer support.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

This isn’t AT&T Developers Program’s first rodeo at SXSW. Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Team Flipardy – When you are arriving to a new city, you can discover a complete new world, we will guide you at your visit. All I know is things are super dialed in at these hacks. Backed by a scalable mySQL.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. This is the question posed by iPhone developers around the world as they begin porting to the Intel® AtomTM SDK. When porting an application from one platform to another, the first item we as developers tend to think about is the programming language.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

The develop so much conviction that they can solve it that they do the most difficult thing one can do with one’s ego. Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. At best they can be your history guide. They are your sparring partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Develop & refine a process.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. The launch of their new Boxee Box in November and the user acceptance of that will be telling for their future development. But the whole market will develop more slowly as we watch this bum fight take place.

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