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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Tell me about the business.

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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 ?

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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 ?

CTO Hire 259
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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. 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 ?

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. Listen, I’m not telling you these experiences are for everybody.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Juno provided a free email service. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. Working at Juno.