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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

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” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Our product, a software development and testing tool, was amazingly innovative, worked great, and won a bunch of prestigious awards. .” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

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Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.

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

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This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson?

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