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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

Christian Ciceri is a software architect and cofounder at Apiumhub , a software development company known for software architecture excellence. Before joining Thoughtworks, Neal was the chief technology officer at the DSW Group Ltd., Rene Weiss – Software Architect, Consultant & CTO at FINABRO.

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Beam Impact raises $13.3M to turn everyday purchases into a way to support social causes

TechCrunch

The company was founded in 2017 by Beam CEO Viveka Hulyalkar, a former McKinsey consultant, and CTO Alex Sadhu, a former Tinder iOS engineer. Beam is partnered with 100 brands, including Instacart, Parade, IKEA, Roots Canada and more. The company’s Series A funding brings Beam’s total raise to date to $15.4 million.

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

When I talk with early-stage companies, often the discussion starts with them asking me about Hiring a CTO for Your Startup , or Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup or How to Find Programmers for Your Startup. The startup founder is definitely not ready to hire a CTO. Far from it. Great post Gabriel!

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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Summary from the 30 July Analyst Forum

CTOvision

Second was Dr. Bourne, reasoning that answers to big data problems can come from anywhere either cofounded in a journal, a pandemic modeling article, or a 15 year old who was published in a leading journal.Third Nolte pointed out that there are now technically illiterate students and technologists with little worldliness.