SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. Creating companies, raising funding, completing multi million M&A deals.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. The technology is mature enough that working from home works pretty well. Companies Must Build a Process for Managing Distributed Engineering Teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

Technology has become so disruptive in the business world that sometimes its exact purpose can be forgotten. . From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. Everypixel: Stock image search engine.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Often, executing a flank attack involves developing new technology. Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Whether you’re a conversion optimization agency, consultant, or in-house at a startup or enterprise, investing in the right conversion optimization tool is a big decision. Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. It’s really ideal for startups.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. Efficient management of the back-end with technologies such as PHP and Python. Multiple pick-up points along the route ensure the timely delivery of parcels.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

Startups have popped up left and right to show off their innovative new tools, and Google — the tech giant above all tech giants — now claims to be a machine learning company. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement. Reduce the weight of a CRM by adding additional products to your technology stack.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? Did they have a Weak Development Team ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” ” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

where trust and transparency is not only key, it is required) Topl’s blockchain uses similar technology (both of our back-ends are written in Scala) Topl’s BaaS provides predictable pricing Predictable pricing is not a feature of all blockchains. Topl has an ESG focus. But for an asset-based supply chain solution, a predictable?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. 15 minutes.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. Unfortunately in many cases, the choice to hire a CTO is the worst choice a CEO or management team could make. Konamoxt, Inc. Life is good at Konamoxt.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. FIVE ISRAELI STARTUPS SHINE IN INNOVATION TOP 100. Haifa is also home to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Those people also tend to go crazy in a startup. I have found this quite rare in engineers.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Have an account?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When they see a problem with the teams process, why dont they just fix it?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

So this means you’re going to need access to developers to create the prototype. At a typical early stage startup, this is usually not a big problem. Unfortunately, at more established companies, it can be hard to get sufficient time from the developers to build and deploy a live-data prototype.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Playing with new technologies. Seeing whats possible.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits has engineered over 200 apps to date, with plenty more to come.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Walking the show floor revealed a lot of SAP people in every area demo’ing and talking about SAP products and technologies, and as @pgreenbe noted there wasn’t a lot of chaos and noise. There was a nice retrospective of SAP’s 40 years, paralleled to that of the technology industry in general. over to fill the gap?).

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. FAQs What if the right guy already has his own startup? Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. Write them as a chronological story.

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