What's the minimum viable feature set for a software product? Startups have limited resources, so how do they balance their ambitions with their finances?

Startups need developers, but in a shaky economy many good developers are staying with their current employers. How will Los Angeles find the talent to power all the technology startups that are itching to get going?

SoCal CTO blogger Tony Karrer still writes code at his TechEmpower development firm in Los Angeles. Once a month he runs the LA CTO Forum in Santa Monica which keeps him in touch with the issues early stage tech companies face, one he calls the founder-developer gap. How does he find good technical talent? He taught CS for 11 years, so he met a lot of good talent along the way.

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