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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. Experience with Startups!

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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

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Using AJAX to Get City and State from ZIP Code Auto-Complete the Country Field The conventional way for users to specify their country is to select it from a drop-down list. This option could reduce the number of text fields and decrease the work that users have to do to sign up.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

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Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. May 23, 2011 17:45:54 Reply 0 Flag this comment HD1080i Follow +1 DITTO ON THAT … counting app downloads vs use-case metrics shows that the native app gets lost in its own sea of icons.

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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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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. PHP may not be a great language, but the platform it enables does attract one particular kind of great developer: the cutting edge web gurus who work primarily in javascript, DHTML, and Ajax.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Exactly who this is implemented is up to the developer, since they might have better ways then having a normal button, in my experience many customers have a hard time visualizing this and therefore end up with a very strict and old fashion description when modern technology such as ajax could make that extra button unnecessary.