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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development?

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

They look at the code produced on a regular basis to ensure that it’s high quality and right for you. Specifically, they pay attention to: Is our code scalable and extensible? Do you have access to and ownership of the source code? This is especially important with outsourced development teams.

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3 Mistakes Software Developers Make That Can Cost You Your Business

Inverted Software

At Inverted Software we often help our clients manage offshore and onshore development teams. Our proprietary processes and unique experience helps us evaluate and correct software development practices that have proven inefficient and instill practices that insure productivity and success. Developers love to experiment.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Do you really have control of the development? Is this person a CTO or a developer?

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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.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Review the code being built. The "Questions" post is probably the most important. Plan for past the initial MVP. I'm always happy to try to help startups figure out how to go after creating their MVP.