Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors. The ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 development team pushed battery technology to the bleeding edge.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? Did they have a Weak Development Team ?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

Affordable pricing is another reason the Cold Chain solution will utilize the Helium network for pay-as-you-go predictable network pricing for temperature and other IoT devices?—?much To ensure predictable performance our development team built a queueing layer between the users and the various blockchains.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

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. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Jonathan is also a UX and marketing consultant for major startups including Any.Do So you’ve developed your dream app and uploaded it to the market, eagerly waiting for a flood of downloads to propel your product to stardom. Try to buy banners through ad networks or directly from blog owners. and Playscape.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

While there are hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of CRM solutions, not all are alike and not all are created with small businesses and startups in mind. We’ve curated a list of the most recommended CRMs for small businesses and startups to help you evaluate the best CRM that fits your needs and the needs of your business.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity. Our developer friends recommend checking out StackOverflow’s career section and LimeExchange , too. PM OK, agree.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. Review the code being built. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Facebook has clearly built a huge community and is one of the leading social networks on the web. However, it seems that there is a huge privacy backlash online (according to USA Today already 500k of 9.5mm members are against this) – I guess part of the lure of the Facebook that it was more of a closed network than MySpace.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. In teams that have a business culture, the MBAs pick time. Software Eng.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. Scales with data size.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. Yes, I know that many employers are bad. We were family.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. Vivek Wadhwa ( @vwadhwa ) TechCrunch even published a piece decrying the end of startup stealth mode. Which is in direct contradiction to his earlier blog post, “ Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret.&# We just trusted they’d keep it to themselves.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Those who have the endurance are the ones that tend to lead teams and join startups, because you just cant be successful in a startup situation without empathy. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. I would characterize them as intolerant but not arrogant.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. Write them as a chronological story.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. FAQs What if the right guy already has his own startup? Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. That’s the good news. We think so.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER JUNIPER BUYS ISRAELI VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY FIRM ALTOR FOR $95 MLN. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Engineers often want to be able to move around and work on different projects, rather than be pigeon-holed into working a particular team or feature set.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2015

This is critically important for new startups that relay on user feedback to best navigate the unknowns around developing their value proposition and what pain points their product solves. We’re an EdTech platform building an admissions social network connecting applicants with other applicants, and schools, students and alumni.

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