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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 [...]

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I have extensive experience growing and nurturing UX within organizations and building UX teams. The most successful companies that I have built have *always* had a strong UX role in them. I view this position as critical to launching a killer product.

UX is best done by applying a Behavior-Structure-Presentation triangle (see diagram above) to the [...]

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Florian Drescher is hosting another cloud training session. I did this before and think he’s a great teacher. I would go again, but I am going to Startup Weekend LA (same weekend). The cost is $20. Q Connects is in the Howard Hughes complex.

Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2

This course [...]

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I meet a lot of startups that are looking for that perfect developer who will buy into their vision (aka “drink the KoolAid”) and work for equity (i.e. “for free”). Well, that’s not going to happen. I mean it can…but that’s like winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning – you can’t plan for [...]

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How Facebook Ships Code

On January 19, 2011 By

I came an interesting article about Facebook’s internal development operations. It’s a great read.

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Last Friday, the LA CTO Forum hosted a discussion on the various metrics used to measure ourselves and our companies. I was asked to participate, and eagerly dug into my archives. I found a bunch of old examples, sanitized them, and was struck by how much metrics evolve over the lifecycle of a company. I [...]

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I just met up with Eric Hammond, Ken Weiner, and more for Thursday Lunch on the Third Street Promenade. If you haven’t been, I highly recommend it. I’m not sure how the crowd normally is, but it was pretty tech/developer heavy this time – and I [...]

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My friend Mark Long recently asked me about networking in Los Angeles. Mark is a CTO, see, and his company, PortBlue, was recently acquired (congrats, Mark!). After transitioning to the new team, Mark was left to wonder, what now? Where do I need to go to meet the people that I will “build the [...]

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