What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What other kinds of systems will we likely need? Who’s responsible for what portions? How will we find and interview developers? How do we motivate and manage developers? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? What specific technical innovations might make sense? What can we build that might be protectable? What metrics are

Leah promotes open source, APIs, and the Django web framework on her blog at leahculver.com . Leah: Ya know that would be a good metric to measure. We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects. Pownce was just the highest profile of them.

One of the things I am passionate about is analytics and metrics. It was this experience that gave me the appreciation for the importance of metrics and the greater importance of making meaning of the data for decision making. While at one of my recent startups I developed a framework for startup growth metrics (focused primarily on user metrics). UPDATE:  I’m setting up a new project on analytics.  If you are interested in collaborating ping me on twitter @gammill.