SoCal CTO

article thumbnail

Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

SoCal CTO

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's going to go wrong? See Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction.

article thumbnail

Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

SoCal CTO

" One was an enterprise software product. Would it take more work to sell the enterprise product than they could make on it? In both cases, the founder and I brainstormed on ways to shift the product in order to get closer to what I perceived as something that would be great. Neither felt like a slam dunk.

Customer 227
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

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?

article thumbnail

Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

article thumbnail

Don’t Subtract - Restart to Find the Minimum Viable Product

SoCal CTO

Steve Blank wrote a great post recently entitled Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set where he explains the real goals around defining a minimum viable product: Founders act like the “minimum” part is the goal. Only a special subset of customers will and what gets them breathing heavy is the long-term vision for your product.

Product 150
article thumbnail

Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world.

article thumbnail

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

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. Understand where they were in terms of being able to pay or was this equity-only (sweat equity only). He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.