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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

But I’ll grant that he taught us a lot and had crazy-good engineers. We knew we had to quickly branch out and build more solutions than customer ratings and reviews to have a real platform?—?and But remember that this was 2005?—?and Their CEO was ultimately too protective and too conservative. Yeah, I guess you could say that.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account? Kayserian believes they will.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews.

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How To Close The Books on Your Startup

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Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO]. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Tech & Gadgets Highlights. Jobs Join Mashable on Google+ Welcome to Mashable!

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. I don’t actually have any employees.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs

Altgate

  For example, it's tilted toward authors in the US who write about "tech" companies but I would love to expand and grow the reach.  My list has many biases.    So if you know of other blogs that should be included on this list, post a comment here and I'll update the list. Bookmark the permalink.