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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Do you have a merchant account already set up?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Do you have a merchant account already set up?

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. I’ll address the specifics of what this Founder Developer Gap looks like below. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. Who will do that?

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Its certainly something to keep in mind.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap. Unfortunately for a lot of founders, it’s hard to know the gap. see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? There’s a funny phenomenon where often the best sounding technical people are often the worst developers.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The Alright, let’s move down the line: Look for anybody who implements OAuth/Facebook Connect/etc. Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software. Designed by. Are you sure?

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A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs

Startup Lessons Learned

also supports oauth, so you can log in with your twitter credentials. I'm finding many people coming to me with jobs, not to offer to me necessarily, but to say, "hey do you know any good designer/engineer/product person looking for a new opportunity?" They can turn off these contacts at any time.