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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services.

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Talented product developers. In short, they provide a natural, organic, and deeply reliable way to grow a business. In the process, everyone understands that SAS Canada software was an important contributor. Highly trained salespeople.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Lab

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. For example, Amplitude is a product analytics software.

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

SoCal CTO

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I don’t know any developers. When I point out that they’re all business people, and wonder who’s going to build the product, they almost always fall back on “we’ll get a couple of undergrads to do it,” or, “we’ll outsource it.” or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing.