How to Choose Your Tech Stack – Step 4: Ecosystem
4. Consider the landscape of tools in your industry One of the keys to a successful MVP is reducing time to market. Capitalizing on existing tools can dramatically reduce the scope of work and effort required to launch your product. When selecting a programming...
How to Choose Your Tech Stack – Step 3: Who Will Build It?
3. Who is going to build this thing? Shortage of engineering talent is a major challenge for early stage startups. As a result, the availability of engineering team members will play a role in determining the right tech stack for your company. Certain tech stacks...
How to Choose Your Tech Stack – Step 2: Backend
An MVP is all about getting a product into the hands of your customers quickly and learning from their feedback. Importantly, it also serves as a foundation for your engineering team to build on as your company grows. Before any code gets written, you will need to select the tech stack that will power your application.
How to Choose Your Tech Stack – Step 1: Web vs Mobile
An MVP is all about getting a product into the hands of your customers quickly and learning from their feedback. Importantly, it also serves as a foundation for your engineering team to build on as your company grows. Before any code gets written, you will need to select the tech stack that will power your application.
How to Choose Your Tech Stack – Introduction
An MVP is all about getting a product into the hands of your customers quickly and learning from their feedback. Importantly, it also serves as a foundation for your engineering team to build on as your company grows. Before any code gets written, you will need to select the tech stack that will power your application.
December 2019: Voice technology has captured consumers’ imaginations and wallets…. So, what’s next?
Voice technology is in a historically unique place as an Internet-era consumer technology. It has been around for a long time, has been adopted by a large swathe of consumers, and yet it still hasn’t developed very many use cases beyond the ones it launched with.
November 2019: The History of the Internet in Just One Newsletter
The History of the Internet …
… in Just One Newsletter
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the first moonwalk and … the internet. Yes, it’s really that old.
To celebrate its anniversary, we have written a summary history of computing and the Internet. Through links. Because everything is else is generally TL;DR, particularly if you are reading this on your phone….
Geeta Chauhan: Be willing to place big bets before everyone else
SVSG is excited to share that its AI Practice Lead, Geeta Chauhan, has been nominated for CTO of the Year in the 2019 Silicon Valley Women in IT Awards.
Geeta is a seasoned veteran of Silicon Valley, with over 25 years’ experience leading teams of developers. She has worked for startups and Fortune 500s, built and launched 17+ platforms and countless applications based on Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Internet of Things, and other cutting edge techniques. She’s been a trusted advisor for investment firms during merger and acquisitions and venture funding, and led over a dozen due diligence projects across US and Europe with total of ~$200 Million investments.
Technical Debt White Paper
Technical Debt comes from multiple sources, not just from code written too quickly, but also from natural causes such as a UX paradigm that becomes dated, or an architecture that can no longer support traffic that has grown 10x since its design. This whitepaper...
SVSG CTO Geeta Chauhan Wins CTO of the Year
SVSG is excited to share that its AI Practice Lead, Geeta Chauhan, has been nominated for CTO of the Year in the 2019 Silicon Valley Women in IT Awards.
Geeta is a seasoned veteran of Silicon Valley, with over 25 years’ experience leading teams of developers. She has worked for startups and Fortune 500s, built and launched 17+ platforms and countless applications based on Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Internet of Things, and other cutting edge techniques. She’s been a trusted advisor for investment firms during merger and acquisitions and venture funding, and led over a dozen due diligence projects across US and Europe with total of ~$200 Million investments.
SVSG AI Practice Lead Geeta Chauhan Nominated for CTO of the Year 2019
SVSG is excited to share that its AI Practice Lead, Geeta Chauhan, has been nominated for CTO of the Year in the 2019 Silicon Valley Women in IT Awards.
Geeta is a seasoned veteran of Silicon Valley, with over 25 years’ experience leading teams of developers. She has worked for startups and Fortune 500s, built and launched 17+ platforms and countless applications based on Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Internet of Things, and other cutting edge techniques. She’s been a trusted advisor for investment firms during merger and acquisitions and venture funding, and led over a dozen due diligence projects across US and Europe with total of ~$200 Million investments.
SVSG in Forbes: How To Make The CEO-CTO Relationship Work
The success of a venture-backed company usually depends on two main factors: its technical innovation and the velocity with which it introduces new products. In order to sustain these competitive advantages throughout their growth, companies must ensure that the delicate relationship between the CEO and the CTO is effective.
SVSG partner company introduces Hackerpet: a platform for creating pet games
New platform open-sources CleverPet’s training algorithms and enables easy capture and display of companion animal learning and activity data.
SVSG in Forbes: The Art Of Technical Due Diligence
After participating in dozens of TDD projects, I’ve learned that there are many ways to solve a technical challenge — including using frameworks or programming languages that I personally wouldn’t touch. It is thus critical to put aside one’s own ideas of technical purity and “the right way of doing things” during TDD and to have an open mind about how technology can be used.
Ethical AI is Possible: A Postcard from the Future
As we move into a world of AI First solutions, there has been a lot of debate, fear, and hope about the impact it will have on our lives. A new field of Ethically Aligned AI has emerged as a result, and this article attempts to paint a vision of hope for year 2022, describing the possibilities if the movement achieves its goals, and then explains why I think this future is possible.