TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What channels will you use (e.g., Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. You find that you have to support channel partners as well as direct customers (or vice versa). This team worked as a team, not as individuals. You’ll build custom code for certain clients.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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CTO Technical Review Technology Software Review 40

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Consider converting to a channel sales model at some stage in the lifecycle of the business. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Only when you’ve completed your mock-up and been through several iterations with any other business partners, are you ready to move onto the next stage - documenting it in a functional specification The Functional Specification This document is the most important document that you’ll write for your business.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fortunately, there are a number of examples of successful founding teams that met outside of school. Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. Cisco was a husband and wife team. Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal.

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