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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , In Los Angeles, I have easy access to a bunch of potential strategic technical advisors through the LA CTO Forum.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? If you are the senior most development leader, often there are organizations locally that you can get into where you can meet peers. How can we address this risk?

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

One of your better developers leaves. No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists.