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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Have you conducted Problem, Solution and Feature Interviews with customers? Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s? Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these?

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5 Communication Hacks For Startup Cofounders

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, I decided to launch a weight loss program with my best friend, Artem Petakov. Today, our program, Noom, is a bonafide health empire that’s helped over 47 million people live longer, healthier lives – and counting. Saeju Jeong is the CEO and Co-founder of the world’s leading weight loss program, Noom Coach.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It was all technical.

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How to Learn Programming and Launch Your App in 3 Months—with No Programming Experience

Up and Running

If you’ve ever tried to start a software company or build a mobile app, you’ve probably come across these options for getting it out there: Find a technical cofounder. Learn programming and build it yourself. My experience with cofounders and freelancers. How long does it really take to learn programming?

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Reducing the risk factors: Why first time founders should join an accelerator program

The Next Web

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve. That is a fascinating perspective.