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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success. certified test equipment and test environment) results available for governing agency review. These labs are ‘for profit’ centers and very expensive.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. Most early-stage, in-house teams needs to be hands on developers, not strategic. Is this person a CTO or a developer? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.