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In this episode of the OSL Podcast, Rob sits down with Nick Sales to unpack what a fractional CTO actually does, how outcome driven retainers work, and why strong product, team, and technical foundations matter for growth stage companies. Nick also shares his non linear journey into consulting and startup advisory, plus his perspective on GenAI, where it shines for prototyping and where it can become risky in production if you do not yet know what good looks like.
Let’s start at the beginning and talk about the first step in the tech development process – defining the problem. Rob and I speak to lots of entrepreneurs, often 2 or 3 a week, and all of them have some kind of product in mind. The first thing we like to do with them, to […]
Welcome back to the lab! Following our last article on outsourcing product development, Rob and I spent some time exploring this tricky piece of the startup puzzle, and today we’re going to share our insights in more depth. It’s a topic we have discussed with a variety of people since we started Old.St and we’ve […]
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