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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. What do you see as some of the bigger risks / challenges?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. What do you see as some of the bigger risks / challenges?

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. MSN & AOL.

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

While all of this is going on you are trying to get customers to use your product, enterprises to sign contracts that don’t leave you with unlimited liabilities and landlords to take you in with limited deposits or guarantees. I found it irrational, annoying and counter-productive. In a word – you are truly vulnerable.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What do we build in-house or outsource?

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Building Products for Mass Adoption

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. They use products because the products solve a need they have. Launch a product, iterate, fail fast.

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Tools I use: Vimcal

Eric Friedman

I tend to get sucked into the productivity software rabbit hole pretty easily, but in this case the switching costs were very low (OAuth with calendars) and the savings was very high (instant keyboard shortcut time savings).

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