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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be 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. Review the code being built.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Services like Volusion and Shopify or DIY products like X-Cart , are numerous and often quite mature. Community and Social Sites I don’t know how easily you can make money in this line of business (the fact that Facebook isn’t profitable is probably a good warning sign) but creating online communities certainly is possible.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. A good architect should be judged, not by the beauty of the diagram, but by the quality of the work that the team does using it. Does this sound familiar?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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