SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. It needs to be funded to be successful. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Reply Delete flyingnome Aug 15, 2010 05:30 PM Try to make a product that is just as easy to sell to a technical co-founder as it is to a VC or Angel. I was basically a consultant without the payment and I basically got taken advantage of. Act accordingly.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

David Crow writes in his article “ Founders versus Early Employees “, “Remember the goal is to incent early employees to have an emotional ownership of the product and company they are building. After all, I essentially created the product. You’d have to look at your stock options contract. PHP Veteran.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) Rockstar v. You, a creative guy?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. There’s definitely a learning curve, but for anywhere between $7-$25 an hour for experienced coders, it’s hard to deny. Want to be featured?

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Early employees are paid a salary from day 1, don't have to have the reputation/connections to raise money, take on much less risk, and often have much more information about the company (team so far, financials, product traction/progress) when they decide to join than the founders do when they found the company. This answer.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. Matt Cooke (2010-06-19) # Excellent process.

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