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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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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. This benefits you, the entrepreneur.

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

socalTECH

Kevin Hell: Yes, we have a selection committee, comprised of folks who are venture capitalists and also have been in the investment arm of large companies. They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator.

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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin that steep profitable growth curve. As a rule of thumb, investors expect each investment round you get to last at least a year to 18 months. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

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 ? So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways

Startup Professionals Musings

That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin that steep profitable growth curve. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. in Computer Science.

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