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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? For some reason there’s a stigma around cash vs. equity conversation and it seems to offend some founders that people have limits for what they will do on an equity-only basis.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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Which Content Management System Is Best For Selling Information Online?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Gideon Shalwick and I have had a conversation over and over again, lamenting the lack of a truly robust software tool designed for Internet marketers to sell information online. It is the brainchild of Andy Jenkins , who with a development team have been putting the final touches on what looks like a potentially very good system.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

Conversely, a willing customer might not have the time to give you consistent feedback in the design stage – they just want the benefits of what you’re offering when it actually works. Each conversation was invaluable, and we didn’t play hide the ball with them. They simply underestimated the effort involved to be in the conversation.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Here's one tiny example: I give talks on peer code review at conferences. Like what??

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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