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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Third party products are used appropriately. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

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. Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? How do you make your money?

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. These acts can often be start of a viral growth curve in the enterprise. Sell to many”: the scalable SaaS approach.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Gordon spent 10 years as chief creative officer at EA and has an active interest in console and MMORPG games (some of which he helped create). Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. What will you find here?