SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Find customers, partners and channels early.

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TechEmpower

JULY 12, 2023

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

CTO Hire 650

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations – offering more efficient and creative ways to execute existing business models. Each of these authors ( along with others too numerous to mention) profoundly changed my view of management and strategy.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Look at the business and determine what's going to make sense from a development perspective in the short-term, longer-term. Do you really have control of the development? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

Technical Review 332

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 332

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

Outsourcing software development has become an increasingly popular strategy for US companies, and Eastern Europe is emerging as a prime destination. Source: Pixabay In addition to the quality of work, Eastern European developers often have a good command of English, which helps in smooth communication.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

And over time every venture capitalist develops their own gut feel for what makes up a great team in their industry. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Filed under: Customer Development. Customer Development'

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies. Startups can do anything.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

Technical Review 260

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Leadership brand development. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Using Agile Methodology a Flexible Framework for Challenges The Agile technique is a guiding light for entrepreneurs looking for flexibility in project management. By dividing projects into smaller, more manageable chunks, agile becomes the compass that teams need to navigate uncertainty.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

Startup 335

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work.

Technology 334

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. The initial development rush slows. Implementation/Development. by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi.

Security 206

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Leadership brand development. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth.

Valuation 311

Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. More money is hard to find, and building efficient multiple processes is even harder. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

If you want to join the ranks of entrepreneurs and businesses who have a reputation for being ahead of the pack, for being an initiator rather than a follower, such as Apple and Nike , here are five key strategies and skills to develop that I recommend and practice: Develop a mindset of constant change required to thrive.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum.

Intellectual Property 290

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. And we need to make sure we continually evolve that software, from development, to production to sustainment. They develop the agenda. it’s all a continuum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

Based on their long careers assisting in leadership development with large companies as well as small, they detail eight keys to enhancing your leadership impact at work, home, and anywhere else that needs you. Cultivate mental agility and a learning mindset.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

There are two main paths to follow in mobile app development: native and cross-platform. Code written for one OS cannot be reused for another, which makes the development and maintenance of native mobile apps expensive and time-sapping. The story is different for cross-platform. How is it possible? Choose the right pricing model.

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Mobile Developer Open Source Software Engineering 147

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

Artificial Inteligence 291

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing automation software will help to create logical buyer journeys, provide data insights that drive targeting the most valuable customers and prospects, and enable agile development and optimization of marketing campaigns that ensure that you are maximizing your marketing investment to drive revenue. Project management tools.

Small Business 173

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

Two prominent frameworks, Flutter and React Native, have emerged as popular choices for businesses seeking to develop cross-platform applications. This transformation encompasses leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , cloud computing, data analytics, and mobile applications to enhance efficiency, agility, and innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. You must be committed to developing a growth mindset in others around you to help them aspire to new challenges and achievements. Develop self-awareness of your triggers. Enhance capability by helping others grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

I’m sorry to predict it will never happen, so the agility you may have learned over the past couple of years will continue to be critical to your survival. Bezos believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus outpace your competitors.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We started developing capabilities as part of that great power competition with the Soviet Union. There are five things we have to do to set up Space Force: Developing our own people is a big piece of what we’re focusing on. We need to develop space experts that understand how to operate in the contested domain.

Technology 333

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If done sensibly and securely, remote working can be incredibly advantageous for any flexible and agile business. He is a strong business development professional with a keen eye for detail, and skilled in graphic design, computer hardware and troubleshooting.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Software Review Security Agile 246

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. One that is no longer tied to large 20th-century industrial systems, but to a 21st-century software-centric agile world. While You Were Out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. More money is hard to find, and building efficient multiple processes is even harder. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase.

Startup 287

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. There are many different types of startup studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. The Agile Board.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This blog features the top ten software outsourcing businesses in India , highlighting their experience and software development solutions. Businesses of all sizes may save much money by having their software developed in India via an outsourcing service. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc.

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