Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet. Dick is focusing his effort on getting some early customer validation and is using a Lean Startup approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

And as always, I emphasized the need to develop new tools to work in this new way, what I call entrepreneurial management and innovation accounting ( read the book to get the full scoop). But I talked to a number of people in agencies across the executive branch that are actually using a lean startup approach. But some have.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. It seems like it’s somewhat of a surprise to nontechnical people that development skills are VERY high in demand.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." But I don’t think so.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Investors Companies. 18 – Location, Location, Location.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. 70 Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2011 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Pandora CTO Reveals Half of The U.S. Very shady, if true.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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