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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

[and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. It got quite good reviews in the media: TechCrunch , LifeHacker & PandoDaily and many others. The team has put in a huge effort to get to this day – and I hope they’re sleeping well tonight.

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal 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. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal 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. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. HipChat : ”The dev team uses HipChat pretty extensively for chatting, both one-on-one and group. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer. For Operations.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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No-Code is Here to Stay: What’s the Play for Marketers?

ConversionXL

People should have more conviction around the thing they’re trying to build before they speak to the developer. Ben Tossel founder of Makerpad told The Future is No Code. Ryan Hoover founder of ProductHunt. But at least you have a foundation to share with your design or development team. Let’s take a look: Pros.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

*All* of the factors involved in delivering software are affected by starting with baseline requirements that are constrained to what the system should do and the process artifacts desired (say 5 forms reading and writing a database store). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?