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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. 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. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

TechCrunch

Fleet arose from an open source project called Osquery that was created by CTO Zach Wasserman together with Moonfire Ventures partner Mike Arpaia. Wasserman was a software engineer on the security team at Meta (formerly Facebook) and cofounded two companies, Kolide and Dactiv, before settling in at Fleet.

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

Developer Motivators and Demotivators If you’ve not watched the Big Bang Theory, then let me give you some homework. It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. Only go social when they go social. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.

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The startup founders' guide to software delivery

CircleCI

Full disclosure: I’m the CTO of a CI/CD company, so I will be encouraging you to use CI and CD throughout this guide. As a 20 year software industry veteran, four-time startup founder, and three-time CTO, I know that time is one of the most valuable resources a startup has on its side. Why should you listen to me?

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How Git Can Power an Exciting Future for Content Management

Netlify

Git has forever changed how developers collaborate on software. It’s now almost a given that a software development project will use the distributed version control system. But if it’s so powerful, why are developers the only people using Git? It’s changed how developers build software together.

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Make Something Great: Become an Open Source Contributor

A List Apart

Not only diversity in perspective, but also diversity of gender, location, cultures, and social backgrounds. Most people who contribute to an open source project are also users of the software. Geertjan Wielenga was a technical writer in the NetBeans community. Developers that don’t want to code. Why bother?