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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. "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.

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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. The bottom line is that you should first look to make your Minimum as Minimum as possible. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today!

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Scaling Technology and Organizations Together with Randy Shoup

Gitprime

He was the VP of Engineering at Stitch Fix, Director of Engineering for the Google App Engine, the CTO and cofounder of Shoplilly, and the Chief Engineer at eBay, among other leadership positions. Aim for releasing the minimum viable product. Iterate to the solution.