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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. But the reality is that I engage with about 5 new startups each year which means that I end up working with less than 5% of the startups where I provide these free consulting sessions.

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. But the reality is that I engage with about 5 new startups each year which means that I end up working with less than 5% of the startups where I provide these free consulting sessions.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. This will only be disclosed when there is an NDA in place. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. This will only be disclosed when there is an NDA in place. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it.

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Initial Conversation with a CTO or Technical Advisor

SoCal CTO

Are you a non-technical startup founder who’s about to go have a conversation with a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) or Technical advisory type person? Maybe you are trying to determine what technologies might apply that you should be evaluating. You don’t ask for an NDA from an investor before presenting.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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Which language should my startup use?

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Languages like Tcl -- which powered Vignette s CMS products in the dotcom heyday -- are now rather unusual in web development. However, Java is not a particularly productive language to work with, and many elements of functionality can be delivered more rapidly in the other languages. framework was built.