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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you. Conclusion Bottom line – if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. While You Are Building Your MVP Look for the following Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. And when you have Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early. Correct your course quickly.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Ways to Make Your MVP More Minimum We spent quite a bit of time talking about a complexity scale and the kinds of resources you can viably use at different levels of complexity. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

, How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide ), how to manage development resources ( Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development , Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early , Symptoms of a Weak Development Team ), choosing technical frameworks ( Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup (..)

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There is More to Software Than Just Making it Work

Inverted Software

“I hired a software development company from India. They outbide all the US based companies I contacted and offered developers at a cheap price. Cloud bills can get expensive depending on the resources it consumes. Two years later they are still working on my systems.

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

This is something I’ve explored several times already in my blog: Startup Founder Developer Gap Startup CTO or Developer Technical Advisors – Why Every Startup Needs Them Bottom line - for most startups, what they really need is a technical advisor or part-time CTO along with some development resources.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Accounting?