Dearing: Daily software deployments and rapid prototyping are necessary founder markers
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Michael Dearing, founder of Harrison Metal, outlines the practical markers of speed and execution velocity he requires when evaluating software founders.
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“How fast do they release prototypes? How many days a week do they push new software to production? How quickly do they start sketching an idea versus just talking about it in very macro terms? And how quickly does a pen go to paper? Those are markers of people who operate at the kind of velocity that I think is necessary nowadays, at least in, in software worlds.”
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