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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. Most early-stage, in-house teams needs to be hands on developers, not strategic. Is this person a CTO or a developer? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.

Steve Blank

Yet at their early stages, they are not small versions of larger established companies. When Startups reach the Transition stage, it’s time to look inward and decide whether the current CEO and executive staff are capable of scaling to a large company. The Scalable Startup stage called for opportunistic and agile leadership.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. My experience says that if the development team relies on mockups and documents created by customers then the team and the project are in a real trouble.

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