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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

Designing new hardware products that have a positive impact on customers is no small feat. There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. By: Kevin Bailey, CEO at Design 1st.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

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. Graphic design? UI/UX design? Fulfillment?

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The evolution of early stage investing in the UK

The Equity Kicker

That has resulted in a number of policies designed to stimulate startup activity of which the most important is the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and it’s younger brother the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS). However, finding and assessing investment opportunities is still a difficult and time consuming business.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them. What did he know?

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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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. Everyman. (1).

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