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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Your technical advisor can likely help. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We noticed that many of those sites were not pre-populating the site with content, were not drawing from external channels, and were not starting conversations on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. We have some great mentors now.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. How-to get that guy as your mentor - Gabriel Weinberg , September 20, 2010 Forming a couple of good mentor relationships can help bridge the gap between startup failure and success, especially for first-time entrepreneurs.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

SoCal CTO

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. It’s well documented that response time has significant business impact: An ecommerce site that makes $100,000 per day could lose up to $2.5 Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO.

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Interview with Gregg Champion, OneCubicle

socalTECH

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Gregg Champion: OneCubicle.com is a social business network for people on their first, second, and third jobs.