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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you have a bug database? Do you fix bugs before writing code?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time.

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Software Inventory

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” An implementation process (writing code). A deployment process (sending code to customers, putting it on web server, etc). (PS by Joel Spolsky.

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How To Use Digital Technology In Product Testing And Research

The Startup Magazine

On top of visiting competitor websites, you can watch product demo videos, download product instructions and read customer reviews. There are even databases dedicated to product blueprints and designs. There are several applications and websites you can use to create and distribute surveys digitally.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Massive proprietary databases? But along the way, something strange happened.

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. Security-focused code reviews and rigorous penetration testing are also highly recommended.

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