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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Commenting?

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

.” 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. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Framework Benchmarks.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments.

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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 ? These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position. Was it a case of needing Homework? Go to user groups.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

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. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Microsoft became obsessed with COM, OLE and felt that it was the future of software development. To get reputation, you answer questions and they’re peer reviewed.