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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started.

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

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If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Some three decades ago, IBM was years away from being able to prototype speech-to-text technology because the hardware available those days was significantly underpowered for the task. Another success.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD. And has the tension goes down, it will be easier to get the whole team (including the MBAs) to embrace TDD and other good practices as further refinements.

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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. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.