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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. This is because hiring the wrong person could be extremely damaging to a company. Not hiring anyone is also extremely damaging. Diagrams, architectures, design, etc. For a startup especially, not taking risks means dying.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

This is my favorite one, where the architecture claim to be decentralized but at the end of the day, all of the blocks are updated in a centralized location every 10 minutes. The blockchain is service-orientated architecture like XML web services where XML is not “standardized” and neither is the delivery. Natural Language.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

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.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

femgineer.com

Femgineer Coder. If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. People constantly ask if I know people, where to find the so-called ’startup-engineers’, or even where the can find someone like me.

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Childhood Coder Now Saves Failing College Classrooms

Hearpreneur

In the book, protagonist Howard Roark says, “who will stop me” after being criticized for his radically unconventional approach to architecture design. Nonetheless, if you don’t trust the people hired to work in your business, don’t hire them. My favorite business quote would be from the 1943 novel “The Fountainhead”.

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Transcript of How to Successfully Run a Business as a WordPress Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

The real power in WordPress came when they released the plug-in architecture, which basically allowed other developers to write little pieces of software that extends the functionality of WordPress. That’s why they’re hiring us as consultants to solve their problem. They call them plug-ins. Troy Dean: Not really.