TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Specifically, they pay attention to: Is our code scalable and extensible?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , I was very worried for several startup in the room.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs. I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. Developers like to do things their way even when it doesn’t meet the needs of the business. The market is great for developers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc? Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What options do we have? How do we balance those options? How can we address this risk?

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