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Before you build your business or product, be sure to describe it clearly and concisely in the following manner:

Speak in business terms with your tech team using the diagrams that you create and significantly improve communication and transparency in your [...]]]>

Before you build your business or product, be sure to describe it clearly and concisely in the following manner:

• Diagram with only boxes & arrows
• Use generic terms
• Avoid using brand names

Speak in business terms with your tech team using the diagrams that you create and significantly improve communication and transparency in your business building efforts.

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Every company or product can be built using one of these three team configurations:

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It’s simple! Seed, Feed, and Weed!

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Not everybody needs a CTO. How do you know if you need one? Analyze your business along the following lines:

This will help you determine if you need a full-time or part-time CTO.

Thank you

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More often than not, I see the business side of an enterprise focusing on development as the problem. How do you know if the business side is generating more than its share of problems? Ask yourself these simple questions:

For a variety of reasons, many people assume that they need a CTO for their company. This is not always the case. Before moving forward with your quest for a CTO, review the following:

Are you capable [...]]]>

For a variety of reasons, many people assume that they need a CTO for their company. This is not always the case. Before moving forward with your quest for a CTO, review the following:

• Determine the level of commitment needed
• Developers are paid; CTOs earn equity
• Budget is a key factor

Are you capable of paying a developer or CTO their market rate? Or are you looking for someone (a partner) to make a commitment in time and equity to your endeavor?

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Be it the business side or the technology side of an enterprise, here are a few simple actions that you can take to make communication a lot easier and improve your team’s behavior and performance:

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Be it the business side or the technology side of an enterprise, here are a few simple actions that you can take to make communication a lot easier and improve your team’s behavior and performance:

• Form relationships
• Educate other team members
• Lead by example

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Developers, engineers, and leaders in technology were not raised the same way as the rest of the people in a business. Here is some advice to bridge the gap in communication between nerds (as I love to call them) and the rest of the team:

Both business and technical people must interview candidates for skills, smarts, and culture. You just go about it a different way, depending on your background. Here are my tips for hiring technical people:

The pains of remodeling and/or redesigning your place of home are a one-for-one match with the pains of building a startup company:

If you have done both, I have no doubt that you will agree!

Hera and fae give good actionable feedback (IMO), and I like [...]]]> Here is a brute force approach to getting closer to 508 compliance, if you only have dev resources and don’t have strong UX resources to sort this out for you. Use the following online testing tools:

1. Hera http://www.sidar.org/hera/
2. fae http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/
3. AChecker http://achecker.ca/checker/
4. Cynthia http://www.cynthiasays.com/mynewtester/cynthia.exe

Hera and fae give good actionable feedback (IMO), and I like how they present the information for developers. The tools are listed in the order of priority that they should be run against the key public areas of your site. Private areas require more hoops to jump through. The process to identify and resolve accessibility bugs is this:

1. Go to the first analysis tool
2. Run the analysis tool on the key public(|private) areas of your site: homepage, profile pages, product pages, and video content pages
3. Fix major accessibility bugs. Document what you don’t fix
4. Rereun tool until major bugs are validated as fixed
5. Load the next analysis tool and go to step 2.

- Mariana Danilovic, CEO of ultralivetv

The founding team (which included FreelanceCTO) designed and built the initial prototypes. To scale company, two rounds of investment were required to target a large-scale consumer audience.

Only half of the product had been built. Significant development effort needed to go into supporting [...]]]> Startup company successfully iterates through two rounds of capital infusions.

Situation

The founding team (which included FreelanceCTO) designed and built the initial prototypes. To scale company, two rounds of investment were required to target a large-scale consumer audience.

Findings

Only half of the product had been built. Significant development effort needed to go into supporting 5 partner and 8 marketplace integrations with large providers. Proprietary algorithms and data analytics needed further refinement and operational support. Data transformation and translation tools were necessary to maintain data integrity and enable third-party integrations

Action

FreelanceCTO led a team of over 10 engineers, developers, product managers, project managers, information architects, designers, copyeditors, and administrative staff.

Result

The company successfully raised all necessary capital and is still in operation today with no additional resource infusions.