SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

Often, a business plan introduces a new technology that requires some explaining. On one hand, as a reader of business plans for investors, I see way too many business plans that ask a reader to wade neck-deep through technology to get to the business. Establish technology as a differentiator, when it is.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2020

No-code and low-code tools are on the rise , with thousands of businesses and makers turning to a faster and cheaper way to test, validate, and build out their ideas. Marketers and businesses who take advantage of no-code and low-code now will be in position to reap the rewards. We’ll take a look in this article.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Both of these schemes use the tax code to make it more attractive for high-net-worth individuals to invest in startups. These two developments combine to make startup investing much more exciting than it ever used to be and we have seen a massive increase in the number of individuals who want to be angel investors.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

On the other hand, the global courier delivery market covering Express delivery and Parcel Pickup and Drop services is all set to surpass a whopping $400 billion by 2024 with a growth rate of 8-10% every year. Kickstarting front-end and back-end development of the On-demand courier delivery app.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Marketers are intimately familiar with their industry and product. The advanced technical knowledge of university professors in engineering and science, for example, makes it harder for them to teach first-year students effectively. The curse of knowledge in marketing. In marketing, the implications are obvious.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not enough to review the localized website and decide it’s not offensive. Your team would then have to spend more time editing code to make sure everything is corrected. If it passes, the build moves on to the testing team, and if it fails, it returns to the development team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? First, take a deep breath and remember that every little software company on Earth in under this threat. Well that still leaves every other market on Earth. Answer: You're dead!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Igor, what do you think about the technology empowering vendor management systems ( VMS)? Let’s have a look inside of the technologies which are used to empower all great and useful services provided by Transformify. In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Payment Services.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Pop-up technology has become more subtle, with the lightbox pop-up becoming the new standard (and also able to bypass pop-up blockers). Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

Technology has become so disruptive in the business world that sometimes its exact purpose can be forgotten. . From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. PSL: Agile Software Development for Efficient Business.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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 ? Team Who's involved?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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 ? Team Who's involved?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It’s the driver of both sales and marketing and establishes a 24/7 representation of your brand. One large advantage of WooCommerce is that it is an open-source platform, so there are hundreds of thousands of web teams who specialize in this technology. With an eCommerce business, your website is everything.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. Today, I think of them as storytellers. The Result?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

The choices for how to spend your time or dollars fall into two buckets: Site improvements, such as new content, on-page optimizations, and fixing technical SEO errors. For example, a worthwhile program investment is training your editorial team on URL creation because preventing technical errors takes less time than fixing them.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Having The Right It is essential for the following reason: Most new products and innovations fail in the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Even worse, when it comes time to "fix it right" the team gets pushback from the business leaders, who want more features. If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. He throws off volumes of code, and it works. Every day counts, every minute counts.

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

” Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA defines it : As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. User testing: Examines how real people perceive and use your site/software.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The server commands that you’ll need to code to run a basic Pass aren’t very complicated — but of course, if you are building a very dynamic Pass that heavily integrates into your back-end systems, it will most likely get much more complicated. DIY Passes. Pass creation services.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The server commands that you’ll need to code to run a basic Pass aren’t very complicated — but of course, if you are building a very dynamic Pass that heavily integrates into your back-end systems, it will most likely get much more complicated. DIY Passes. Pass creation services.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Have an account? Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA explains quality assurance… Lucian Adrian Stroie , R/GA : “As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. via Develop With Purpose).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. You don’t need a developer to use App Inventor, and you can create Android applications that use a smartphone’s features, including GPS and SMS.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Marcel Petitpas. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Like this show?

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