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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. January 2, 2009 8:54 AM mancjew said. January 2, 2009 8:57 AM Abbas said. March 28, 2009 12:44 AM Krishna said.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Tiny, contracting market. Huge upfront software licensing fees. Date for a bit, then split the equity.

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

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET.

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