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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. How strong is product management? Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines. Is there a lot of rework?

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams.

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Election Postscript – That’s Pride Talking

Growthink Blog

As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle. Productivity multiplied.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths

Software By Rob

Some people excel at not needing social interaction and being extremely productive on their own. It’s not only more productive to capitalize on your strengths, it’s way more fun. Some people excel at not needing social interaction and being extremely productive on their own. Heinlein #5 A-ron on 02.03.10

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). You, a creative guy?