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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. What do we build in-house or outsource?

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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 a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

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It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. Companies here are really held accountable to what is in the contract, and how their products are implemented. Damir Davidovic: That's a good question.

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Interview with Jay Ackerman, Reveleer

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Glendale-based Reveleer (www.reveleer.com) is a developer of cloud-based software used for managing medical data, and recently announced a Series C funding round from investors Boston Millenia Partners and Upfront Ventures. We're backed by Upfront Ventures, which is a well known venture capital firm here in SoCal.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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There's a bunch of SaaS products, like NetSuite, with nowhere with the breadth that our tool has, but companies are using that. The next thing is there's a new crop of SaaS companies for time management and professional service automation (PSA), thinks like OpenAir/bought by NetSuite, and a handful of others. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Daryl Bernstein, RightSignature

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For example, if a contract is disputed, you have various layers of protection--there's a digital archive of the original and the completed contract. He had a contract which went South, where they couldn't find a paper copy, and they really got hurt in the settlement of a legal challenge. Obie Fernandez gave us a good one.