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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. Architecture All startups will make a lot of changes and scale the product as they move along.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. It is an architecture and infrastructure — for lack of a cleaner term, call it a platform as a service, a DevSecOps or AI/Ops environment. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC.

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Do you need data engineering before data science?

Version One Ventures

A good data engineer: Gathers data, stores it, does batch/real-time processing on it, and serves it via an API to a data scientist (some companies may call this data infrastructure or data architecture). Has extensive knowledge on databases and best engineering practices.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

No one owns architecture. No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time.

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I learned they were good at high-level architecture design but had clearly been doing only that for a really long time. Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Blockchain Week Bull Run

thebarefootvc

” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.