SoCal CTO

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Part-Time Startup CTO?

SoCal CTO

They tend to know the operations side of a software business well enough to be the one overseeing deploys, crafting the infrastructure plans, and monitoring the health of the product. They tend to understand the product management side of the product well enough to guide the technology in a complementary way.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.