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Startup CTO or Developer

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That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? Accounting?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it.

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TechEmpower Benchmarks and the Microsoft ASP.NET Core 1.0 Performance Story

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Kestrel has been designed from the start to be the fastest.NET server available, and our engineers have recorded some benchmarks to prove it. Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management on the App Plat team at Microsoft, tells a bit of the story on the DotNet Rocks Podcast (starting around 19:00).

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Match Performance Support

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You can also edit the forms directly in the program, but good luck with that. Performance support are systems designed to make a complex tasks simple enough that a novice can complete it effectively. Turbo Tax – one of the greatest examples ever.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

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We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. landing pages, etc.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

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Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What options do we have? How do we balance those options?

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Working with Developers

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I just had a fellow CTO ask me about a particular technical design problem and several directions they could go and ask for my thoughts on the tradeoffs for those different choices. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer.