TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Startup founders make decisions on a daily basis – significant decisions that will have lasting impact on their business. 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. And Maybe You Need Two!

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 260

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Startup Weekends , which takes place in many cities around the world, are a great place to meet similarly charged but differently-skilled people who can one day be your startup co-founders.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Development Team Review Startup Cofounder 157

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire NDA Technical Review 264

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We see this all the time at Forward Partners where we invest right from the idea stage and most of the companies get a first version of their product live for less than £30k (that generally includes founder salaries and time spent doing customer research). Forward Partners and Crowdcube are both attacking elements of these problems.

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Early Stage Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 119

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

Fractional CTO 259

Fractional CTO CTO Hire NDA Technical Review 259

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

[and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. It got quite good reviews in the media: TechCrunch , LifeHacker & PandoDaily and many others. The team has put in a huge effort to get to this day – and I hope they’re sleeping well tonight.

Development Team Review 324

Development Team Review Los Angeles San Francisco Mobile 324

The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. You need to build trust between these teams. Phil Chen , Givit.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

by Sam Bahreini, co-founder and COO of VoloForce. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. The feedback gathered during beta testing can provide a direction for future updates or versions of your product, which can cut costs down the line and improve the turnaround time for your development team.

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Customer Development Team Review Cofounder Agile 231

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

Burn Rate 231

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Was it a case of needing Homework?

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Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Equity Sweat Equity 241

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? How big is the anticipated development team? Fulfillment?

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Developer Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 520

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. ” Really?

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Web Technical Review Architecture Caching 200

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. Have monthly reviews with each team member.

Technical Review 136

Technical Review Development Team Review Leadership Cofounder 136

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

I’ll join in the due diligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion. The detailed look at the technology comes during due diligence, not in the plan or during the pitch. It’s reviewed and revised frequently. I’m comfortable with what I don’t know.

Technical Review 72

Technical Review Software Review Business Plan Development Team Review 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. Have monthly reviews with each team member.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Development Team Review Leadership Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With such daunting statistics, it’s clear that maintaining a startup becomes an uphill battle for founders without the right foundations. The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market.

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Technical Review Startup Silicon Valley Agile 137

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

The startup founder who gets fired just as his/her company is growing into large company could be a cliché – if it wasn’t so true – and painful. I’ve been the founder who got fired, I’ve been on the board as my friends got fired and I’ve been the board member who fired the founders. What’s Next.

Agile 120

Agile Development Team Review Leadership Merger 120

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

SDR Strategy & Model Checklist In the intricate world of sales development, finding the balance between art and science is crucial for a startup's success. Drawing from a wealth of experience at Oracle in the late '80s, sales development expert Sally knows the nuances of this field. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Sales Developer Development Team Review 78

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

by Martin Hunter, co-founder of Free Event Finder. Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. While many consider “ Who Moved My Cheese?

Philippines 100

Philippines Finder Software Review Asia 100

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Editor’s note: Jonathan Saragossi is the founder of IM Creator , a free website builder, and AppSite , an editor and website collection for promoting mobile applications. So you’ve developed your dream app and uploaded it to the market, eagerly waiting for a flood of downloads to propel your product to stardom. and Playscape.

PR 157

PR Development Team Review Viral Mobile 157

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Blog posts by your development team explain the complexities of how the AI system works, highlight how you gather and parse training data, and list use cases befitting Fortune 500 clients. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. Have a broad review process.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors. The ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 development team pushed battery technology to the bleeding edge.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Differentiation Leadership 80

Small Business Force

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Every entrepreneur wishes they were as prescient or creative as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, or Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders, respectively of Apple, Amazon and Google. Set up a series of meetings with a small group of customers (from the User Group if you have one) and the development team at various stages in the process.

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Development Team Review Product Development Developer Customer 36

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I liked that Andy Jenkins and his development team are information marketers themselves, so they know and have experienced what problems info marketers face and have added really cool features specifically for some unique situations. You can follow Yaro on Twitter and see him in action at Yaro.TV.

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Affiliate Bandwidth Hosting Video 98

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. ” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Why doesn’t everyone do this?”

Product 120

Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia ( source ) Michael Eisenberg, co-founder of Aleph, an Israeli venture firm, said in a recent post: “What is the elevator pitch for investing in Israel for the next decade? credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%.

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Israel Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital 78

Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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Cloud Cofounder Architecture Technical Cofounder 62