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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups. ” Can you explain?

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework.

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

This case study is based off real, concrete war stories, and will detail how Confluent Cloud was a key enabler for their digital strategy, unfolding new ways to capitalize on their product and differentiate their business, by leveraging the power of Apache Kafka and the cloud at the same time. CTO of CloudBank. CTO of CloudBank.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? In this talk, we spent most of our time on Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One and how they should be helping you: Specify the right things to be built.