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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Tell me about the business.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Tiny, contracting market. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.? Asking an IP lawyer, “Is my invention patentable?&# Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post !

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite.

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