Im in the middle of my second startup in the role of CTO (really lead programmer). The first was a network of kiosks. The current one is an internet services for various parties in the health care industry (www.healthx.com). Ive found that the biggest problem for us programmers especially with a new product is the natural evolution of the requirements. Bottom line is the sales people like to sell. (doh!) They do anything to get the sale including saying yes all too often. This often results in an influx of new requiremnts that tend to defocus you from the the core orginal functionality. It can really bog down a dev team. I totally disagree with the CONTENT being the key these days. People want to DO things. The content market is saturated with web start ups that provide great content but few have really provided good robust applications that bring various industry partners together working with the "new" medium. Health care content providers are a dime a dozen. Internet health care application prodivers are less common and the majority of the procucts are pure vapor. That coupled with the investment money being thrown at internet health care companies makes it a GREAT place to be. Not to be too self serving but I always have an eye open for talent interested joining my team.
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Im in the middle of my second startup in the role of CTO (really lead programmer). The first was a network of kiosks. The current one is an internet services for various parties in the health care industry (www.healthx.com). Ive found that the biggest problem for us programmers especially with a new product is the natural evolution of the requirements. Bottom line is the sales people like to sell. (doh!) They do anything to get the sale including saying yes all too often. This often results in an influx of new requiremnts that tend to defocus you from the the core orginal functionality. It can really bog down a dev team. I totally disagree with the CONTENT being the key these days. People want to DO things. The content market is saturated with web start ups that provide great content but few have really provided good robust applications that bring various industry partners together working with the "new" medium. Health care content providers are a dime a dozen. Internet health care application prodivers are less common and the majority of the procucts are pure vapor. That coupled with the investment money being thrown at internet health care companies makes it a GREAT place to be. Not to be too self serving but I always have an eye open for talent interested joining my team.
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