Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

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 technology research is required?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Build a deep understanding of customer needs and ecosystem megatrends through interviews, focus groups, data analytics, and your own transformation team research. Have each develop a personal transformation plan with your support. Synthesize empathy with customers with new trends.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Manage human resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

You need to research the possibilities in a new landscape but your personal research has been well, a bit fruitless. Traditionally, these between a rock and hard place problems have been solved with a limited pool of expensive options – usually associated with long contracts and high billables for “MBA quality” work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Manage human resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Market research. Development and rollout. Market research and competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Manage human resources.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Market research. Development and rollout. Market research and competition.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Manage human resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. In many cases, experts with academic or research credentials are not good partners for a business venture.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

SYNCFAB originally started in 2013 as 3D Lab Works to research the advantages of 3D printing and compare it to traditional manufacturing and in turn also help revive the US manufacturing industry. The problem is, local manufacturers do not market their products and services and causes a lot of unknown factors to develop.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Don’t outsource the job. Doing the work at the outset to create a thoughtful and well-researched startup business plan. I answered some of those questions in a previous post, Crafting Your Executive Summary , so I won’t rehash them here. Here’s what not to do when crafting your executive summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Market research. Development and rollout. Market research and competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Finding, searching, and researching take time and even then you won’t know how great the service is. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. TechZulu: What is Porter?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

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?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2015

Almost the instant the concept of the sharing economy was introduced, it has skyrocketed into hundreds of successful and established brands by offering everyone a chance to be their own boss, and others the ability to outsource needs saving time by providing convenience. Rustrum continues to experiment with sharing and shedding.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Also it was taking my assistant away from important tasks that would grow my business rather than maintain it.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. Their development process need to be more open & transparent to get the community excited about being part of reviving the MySpace user experience. •

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap. There’s a funny phenomenon where often the best sounding technical people are often the worst developers. I would suggest if you are thinking about what you really need for your startup in terms of technology, you also take a look at: Startup CTO or Lead Developer.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Christopher Brereton is one of the founders and lead guru of PictureHealing , a company that develops community, awareness and support through photo sharing on iPhones. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Research in Motion (RIM). We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change.

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