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Computer Science 448 |
Role of the CTO
- T. Berray, and R. Sampath, The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success
- W. Vogels, The Different CTO Roles
Why Build a Startup?
- M. Suster, Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur
- Become a systems entrepreneur: Why building a a startup shouldn't always be your first choice
What to build - Thinking about the Market - Competition
- The Startup Scorecard: An easy to use heuristic scorecard for startup opportunity evaluation
- Methods for assessing the potential market of a startup
Defining the Vision, Mission, Strategy
- How to define a mission and vision for your startup
- Adrian Lloyd, How to startup ... Define your Strategy
Raising money, and Financing Strategy
- R. Allis, How to Raise Venture Capital
- E. Laniado, 4 Reasons Why Your Startup Should Not Raise Capital
- P. Maeda, A Start-up's Financing Strategy
Incorporation and Setting Things Up Right
- L. Banijamali, Incorporation Checklist for Startups
- J. Spolsky, How should equity be split between founders, (early) employees, consultants and investors when the company is bootstrapped?
Defining the Offering
- E. Ries, The Lean Startup Methodology
- M. Sharkey, 6 things wrong with the 'Lean Startup' model (and what to do about it)
- H. Walton, Lean Start-Up, and How It Almost Killed Our Company
Building the Offering
- Metz, C., Why Some Startups Say the Cloud is a Waste of Money
- M. Armbrust, et. al., A View of Cloud Computing
- Feher, D. What are the pros and cons of the waterfall and agile/scrum project management approach?
- Sulleyman, A., New research turns the agile vs waterfall debate on its head
Hiring, Talent, and Culture
- M. Andreessen, How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
- M. Suster, Whom should you hire at a Startup? (Attitude over Aptitude)
- McChord, P. How Netflix Reinvented HR
Execution: Prioritization, Planning, Data driven vs. Intuition driven
- Itai Raveh, How to Prioritize Feature Building on Your Startup
- Heivly, C., 4 Steps to Launching a Data-Driven Startup
Distribution: Customer/User Acquisition. Brand
- Ryan Gum, How to Create a Customer Acquisition Plan for Startups
- G. Deeb, 8 Components of Branding Your Startup
Intellectual Property