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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

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How strong is product management? Architecture All startups will make a lot of changes and scale the product as they move along. This means that early software architecture can sometimes not work as well as the startup moves forward. It''s hard to manage a development team when you are not very technical.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. No one owns architecture.

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Part-Time Startup CTO?

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They tend to have the knack for architecture. They tend to understand the product management side of the product well enough to guide the technology in a complementary way. It’s especially rare to find individuals who are going to be strong in a) business, b) operations, c) sourcing/managing talent, d) development.

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TechEmpower Benchmarks and the Microsoft ASP.NET Core 1.0 Performance Story

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This new release is one of the most significant architectural updates we’ve done to ASP.NET. Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management on the App Plat team at Microsoft, tells a bit of the story on the DotNet Rocks Podcast (starting around 19:00). Today we are excited to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 1.0!

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