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How I Found a Great CTO

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Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Shes going to have a big impact on Minteds future.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

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He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. But increasingly we can move to a world where teams are chartered to accomplish results instead of tasked with creating work on spec.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.