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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

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. Video and Audio Are you hosting your own video, or can we use a third-party host like YouTube or Vimeo? Graphic design?

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum.

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Tony has a Ph.D. He is a frequent speaker at trade and industry events.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Hosting - is there anything in place for hosting? How much availability?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Hosting - is there anything in place for hosting? How much availability?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. Details coming soon!)

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

It -- along with Perl, ASP and a host of proprietary platforms -- powered many of the enterprise sites of the late nineties and around the turn of the century. This isn’t to say PHP doesn’t have frameworks – it has many, from Symfony, CakePHP and Zend to a host of others.) Java stands alone from the four others.