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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

This happens when a founder raises money in an initial round, spends most of it on in-house or outsourced development, and ends up with a product that is 90% done. As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.

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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. At Inverted software we know and have seen this all too often. We don’t just make software work; we make it shine! So what makes good software? Scalability.

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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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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

I quite often get a call where a founder raised $150K of initial money and has spend $120K on in-house or outsourced development and the software is 90% done. Most often the failure is both a result of the founder not doing the right things and because the developer over-promised and failed to ask the right questions.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

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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?

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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.