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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. 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.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology?

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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

One of the biggest hurdles – particularly with medical devices, baby products, and food safety products – is how to successfully navigate regulatory standards where potential user and environmental risks of new features must be carefully assessed and documented. 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. Compensation.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. We technology leaders also make this mistake.

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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.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

In addition, according to the IVC-LeumiTech Israeli Tech Review 2023 showed that while total capital raising declined, the capital raising median has shown stability over the year and is normalising with 2020 levels. Imagindairy creates animal-free milk proteins from microorganisms via proprietary precision-fermentation technology.