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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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When creating a new market, expect to spend as long as two years before you manage to get traction with early customers, but enjoy the utter lack of competition. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. What kind of market are you in?

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. Framework Benchmarks.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. It has to be found and managed. Yeah, weve got that.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

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. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3