SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

This idea was well articulated by Paul Graham in an old essay, called “ Startups in 13 Sentences ” in which he talked about “making a few people really happy rather than making a lot of people semi-happy.” Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. View More » Social Good Google Gives $250,000 to Tech Educati. 5 Creative Social Good Campaigns for. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This idea was well articulated by Paul Graham in an old essay, called “ Startups in 13 Sentences ” in which he talked about “making a few people really happy rather than making a lot of people semi-happy.” Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Groupthink.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. A growing number of startups, however, are quietly disproving this assumption. The part that would require the most complex development – the true innovation that no one else does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

Myspace was the largest social networking website in the world. I was working as a software developer in New York City and came upon a recurring problem, having to spend tedious hours coding online forms. Just like I had done, people were searching for a product to help make building forms easier.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

Coworking spaces are a really cool option for a lot of workers that, for whatever reason, don’t really fit in to a traditional office space like startups, telecommuters, small businesses, and especially creatives in search of collaboration. The Hatchery in San Francisco is a great place for startups to take root. Office Nomads.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. Startups are all about just going out there and doing it. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. But as a whole, the experience was transformative.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Key Factors to Effective Competitive Analysis as a Small Business | Search Engine Watch – [link]. This Is Why Social Media Doesn’t Work For Your Business – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 17 Simple Tips On Working At A Startup | LinkedIn – [link]. Startup UX and Design Demystified | 500 Startups – [link]. SEO For Facebook Graph Search?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In fact, one could say that the sagging stock price of Facebook and stories about lack of VC funding for consumer startups represents , in one microcosm, the story of Web 2.0: That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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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. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Innocent Drinks: Don’t be Afraid to Start Small | Startup War Story – [link]. Innocent Drinks: Don’t be Afraid to Start Small | Startup War Story – [link].

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. Startups and Enterprises.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Remember to also do a trademark search at your country’s intellectual property office, such as USPTO (U.S You could also consider online building software such as Wix, Weebly, and Shopify but these are not free.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By the way, this is why TechCrunch traffic is not profitable for startups. It’s completely un-targeted (unless your niche market is other startups) and you have no relationship with that audience. blogs stayed less than five seconds on the site.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers.

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Software By Rob

MAY 24, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. May 24th, 2010 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. It’d make a great “social&# network site.

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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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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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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. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This episode’s Micropreneur is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson who recently launched his online mind mapping software ThoughtMuse. == Rob: Hi Thomas. I’m a 31 year old Norwegian software developer. Network with other entrepreneurs.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. social network/web analysis/etc. niyazpk 215 days ago | link. Shocking, I know.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. December 10th, 2008 | Becoming a Better Developer Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. They finally said it – the “R&# word. at 3:47 pm [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Maples’ Law: A million ways your startup can die and only one unsatisfying way to make sure it lives – [link]. Startup Business Development 101 | A VC – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

RWW Recommends: The Startup Toolkit. Startups face a lot of challenges, but putting together the tools and infrasture they need to get up and running shouldnt be one of them. Startups need to minimize cost and effort so they can focus on brewing their secret sauce, but they cant afford to look like amateurs. Productivity Suites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Primarily targets SMBs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? – [link]. – [link].

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