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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? Correct your course quickly.

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? I offered that if Dave wanted to be the founding CEO then he was going to have to do two things: first, create a reality distortion field large enough to attract a technical co-founder. My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. The Problem.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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.

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5 Promising Israeli Startups In 2020

YoungUpstarts

Intezer.com is headed by Itai Tevet, the CEO, Roy Halevi the CTO, and Alon Cohen Executive Chairman and Founding Investor. The company is headed by Shimon Hason, the CEO, and Erez Fliess , Omer Raviv and Alon Fliess all of whom are cofounders of the startup. Other investors include Samsung Next, Magma, Intel Capital, and OpenView.

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