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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky. The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? Avoid them.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Who’s helping you with fundraising? Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Are you targeting desktop, tablet, or mobile?

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. And this week they unveiled V1 of the MyTime Mobile app.

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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. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term.

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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. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term.

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