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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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Logging/Auditing - do we need to log certain operations in order to help with customer support or for auditing? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? How will we address these without significant cost? How advanced does it need to be initially? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Logging/Auditing - do we need to log certain operations in order to help with customer support or for auditing? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? How will we address these without significant cost? How advanced does it need to be initially? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

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How much is it costing you to get users? But it doesn't tell you how many people will do it in the long term and whether this can support the company (the people and operations within) that is behind it. How much are you making from your users?" " And other similar questions. What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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Technology Roles in Startups

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CTO Founder – Direct responsibility for technical direction and development, sometimes operations, implies greater authority on product and company direction and higher equity position. So, you can easily get sold that there’s little to no Gap. see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

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Are there any time-based operations? We want to do this for two reasons: (1) how complex is the software we need to build – complexity generally means more time/cost to build, and (2) how long will it take for the system to calculate responses. Any blocking operations? What are the characteristics of how these are used?