SoCal CTO
APRIL 2, 2012
Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that? Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2012
Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard Need a Technical Co-founder?
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SoCal CTO
JANUARY 26, 2010
Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. How are we going to manage the product roadmap?
SoCal CTO
MAY 13, 2014
You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. Through this he defined aspects like “deep dives into our marketing strategy” and “product feedback and product strategy.” In Bob’s post, he tells startup founders to get smart on product design, software architecture and development process.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 10, 2012
I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Third party products are used appropriately. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Plan for past the initial MVP.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
He had a partially built product. In my experience, it’s naive to think you can just “get developers to build the product” although it does sometimes work. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone.
SoCal CTO
MAY 27, 2010
You can follow the link above for more details, but the basic idea is that most startup founders have a pretty good understanding of the basics of what they want to do and a vision for the product. And there are all sorts of different kinds of technical people who might help with getting that product to happen.
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