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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

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He is a co-founder and CTO of CoCoPIE LLC. who aim to power next-generation technology without the need for expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars to develop and years to deploy. Our team of researchers started CoCoPIE to solve the chip shortage crisis. We’re a group of Ph.D.s

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Don’t Subtract - Restart to Find the Minimum Viable Product

SoCal CTO

Steve Blank wrote a great post recently entitled Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set where he explains the real goals around defining a minimum viable product: Founders act like the “minimum” part is the goal. Or worse, that every potential customer should want it.

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Daily Crunch: Stripe responds to report that it seeks to raise $2B with a terse ‘no comment’

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Building a minimum viable product once required engineering and design ability. Taking the dating helm : Will Wu, former Snap VP of product, found his “Match” joining the parent company of popular dating apps as its new CTO, which was one of the changes made when Match restructured its executive leadership , Aisha reports.

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

TechCrunch

We have helped startups at pre-seed stage to create prototypes and guide their technology development plans. At seed stage, we work with them to develop their minimum viable product (MVP), and in subsequent stages, we get to help them with some of their many newly formed initiatives.

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

TechCrunch

“We were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed. Why does your strategy require defining a minimum viable product (MVP)? It was properly collaborative, not a blackbox agency arrangement.

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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? Here are some important and relevant posts that relate to the topic of defining the right MVP. The "Questions" post is probably the most important.

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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

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Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high.