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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. One of your better developers leaves.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. Now the problem is, in the diagram below on the left, this is what our DOD architecture looks like today.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. Great question.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. Just like any commercial software, it’s got to be a continuous development cycle. Continuous Integration, Continuous Development, Continuous Delivery. We started with a cross-functional team.

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. We started developing SkyWeaver in January 2018.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., But whenever you do background searches, you should also be developing an idea of their story to identify who the person is. In any production-oriented job (writing, design, development, etc.), office, right in the heart of MIT.