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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

If you’re a CEO, product leader, investor, or a founder looking for investors, a technical review conducted by a neutral, experienced third party will help you discover what’s really happening and what’s needed to make improvements. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. Let’s look at the process in more detail.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. Most often they are not.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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