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Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. 100 get serious due diligence where the entrepreneur meets with several people from the firm. Management should communicate how the board can help - strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. and Half.com. Then 500 of those get a one hour meeting.

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So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description. Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. Like PHP, when hiring Microsoft programmers there’s much to be wary of.NET powers sites of all sizes (though relatively few massive ones) and is very common.NET has some CMS frameworks such as dotnetnuke and Community Server which often distract startups.

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