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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. January 6, 2010 12:49 AM Anonymoussaid. What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Bring your questions.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

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And to be honest with you till a few years ago, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a leadership team coach. So when we started we were more broadly leadership development, team development across organizations. It really got our stride in 2010 and had some great clients and big clients.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

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We do have some feature tricks up our sleeve and an incredible ability to expand our model into adjacent businesses (you’ll see a lot of this from us in 2010). This entry was written by Niel Robertson and posted on March 31, 2010 at 11:12 am and filed under Trada News. link] links for 2010-04-10 | Brian Magierski [.] Great post!

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