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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. Review the code being built. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. Strategic Technical Advisor. Why do this without the right technical advisor?

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Why do this without the right technical advisor? Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky. Actually, many startups need two kinds of technical advisors. CTO Founder – Do they really still need a technical advisor? Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How can we address this risk?

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. automated testing Thinks that all testing is the job of the tester Has written automated unit tests and comes up with good unit test cases for the code that is being written Has written code in TDD manner Understands and is able to setup automated functional, load/performance and UI tests. Programming.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software. While the optimism is a great trait in many ways, it can be a huge cause of frustration between co-founders when the technology takes longer to develop than originally estimated.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software. It had a pretty good technical design.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

making technical recruiting suck less. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude. Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data.