Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Add basic partner contracts or alliances. Both of these qualms are wrong and shortsighted. External scanning for resources.

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APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. What happens when you have a really good developer is that a gap exists where you may not ask the right questions to specify the right system, consider appropriate 3rd party technologies, etc. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. It needs to be funded to be successful. What do you do if you don't know the size? Is it big data?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. &# The classic framework for analyzing a firm’s strategic position is Michael Porter’s Five Forces.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. It needs to be funded to be successful. What do you do if you don't know the size? Is it big data?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&#

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. When Darin founded his company, he did so by knowing a lot about the underlying technology.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. One can, however, make these arguments about different frameworks. and Drupal – which are often confused for frameworks.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety. I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. We have considerable experience with early, mid and late stage technology businesses, both as inside and outside counsel. . -->. Cheezburger’s ‘Luddite’ CTO Scott Porad on why his job beats laying railroad ties.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x They usually have quality up and coming consultants expert in guiding you in "packaging" your idea. the nice thing is that to start, THEY PAY the consultant for you. Rockstar v.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. Well as a programmer of many websites I find that it is easier for my clients to consult my ideas first. I do consult people, however I am not looking for work right now. Please keep going that way, because we are honestly impressed ! THANK YOU!!! feature set.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job. I am CTO of a SaaS vendor, and we use PHP.

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