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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities).

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. They do the spec and marketing work and are seeing $80k a month in revenue, so a successfull relationship with contract development work is very possible.

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

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But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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At this stage, its perfectly fine, and actually preferable, to use a cheap coder to just get something out the door to test in the market. Of course, if you need heaving lifting like a robust eComm site or application development, you need a programmer. Too many people leave their business decisions to coders and designers.