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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Logging/Auditing What key operations need to be logged for auditing? How big is the anticipated development team?

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

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. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. 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. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. Platforms Choosing what mobile platforms to support continues to be a vexing problem for developers both big and small. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools.

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Business Quotes

Hearpreneur

We’re an EdTech platform building an admissions social network connecting applicants with other applicants, and schools, students and alumni. At least re-assess them periodically. Also, operating a small business in this economy is quite a challenge. 10) Embrace Failure. Thanks to Tom Treanor, Wrike !

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Community and Social Sites I don’t know how easily you can make money in this line of business (the fact that Facebook isn’t profitable is probably a good warning sign) but creating online communities certainly is possible. Out of the four of us, we had two web designers, one graphic designer and a physicist!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Please help me out – I would like to review this language.

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