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When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the developmentteam. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This is where a technical review can be useful!) Devteams without a clear leader.
Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our softwareteam? We hear them explain that their current softwaredevelopment is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. But everyone’s situation is unique.
I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.
I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. Review the code being built.
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 developmentteam to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. And Maybe You Need Two!
As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for softwaredevelopment is a contract for percent of future revenue. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. Great strategy.
As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for softwaredevelopment is a contract for percent of future revenue. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. Great strategy.
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 developmentteam? Fulfillment?
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. But I loved reading them and so did my team. It debuted in the morning at $13, ended the day at $11.
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As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for softwaredevelopment is a contract for percent of future revenue. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. Great strategy.
Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. ” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world. ” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the developmentteam that launched AdWords.
Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product developmentteam of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.
Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.
During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product developmentteams. Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.
Every founder frets about competition from a big company, me included. What if a huge company with a hundred softwaredevelopers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? What if a huge company with a hundred softwaredevelopers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea?
Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical duediligence.
This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about softwaredevelopment and/or hiring programmers. How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson?
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