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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Review the code being built. Again, putting something down on paper (wireframes, graphic comps) and getting feedback from potential users can tell you most of what you would learn from a working MVP.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. For example it includes the following kinds of things that a CTO should be addressing, but that may not be part of the expectation, time allocation, etc. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build?

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Interview with Darrius Thompson, OpenCandy

socalTECH

in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. We got really good at figuring out how to get wide distribution for our software, and how to monetize that software in unique ways.