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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

ReadWriteStart

The project to project nature of the gig economy marries perfectly with that of engineering and architecture. Hiring in this way creates for leaner operations, allowing companies to save money. Architecture and engineering may appear like jobs better suited to workers who stay within the confines of one company or one country.

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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We hire generalists because the company wants to be able to dissolve one division one day if it’s not working, and then move those same people into something else that’s new or already working.

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Reasons Why Redesigning Your Ecommerce Website Is Needed

The Startup Magazine

You should not have to hire an IT specialist to add new content to your website. Therefore, you need to contact an expert or hire a web development service that can help you update your website and give you the tools to learn how to do it yourself for periodic updates. Therefore, website design is often overlooked.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.