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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Do you have wireframes?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Do you have wireframes?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. Filed under: Customer Development. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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

SoCal CTO

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. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. But I don’t think so.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. So, that's how I came to Silicon Valley in the first place.