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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities).

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The unimportance of product names

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I think you’re giving generally good advice but there are other factors like SEO value of your name/domain, memorability, simplicity, etc. ”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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