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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

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. Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap.

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Five Secrets A 25-Year Headhunter Wants You To Know

YoungUpstarts

Don’t hire for industry experience. A far more important hiring criterion is what I call “DNA.”. A far more important hiring criterion is what I call “DNA.”. You want to hire people whose values, motivations, and personality correspond to — or better yet, expand — your culture. Old habits die hard.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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