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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&#

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. ” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. These traits of a software engineer are always in demand by a great number of companies. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This ties into this Paul Graham article: [link] /equity. I'm always su.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We so often see good ideas, without a good understanding of customer demand (reason number 2).

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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link] Hazem Awad An excellent and very practical article. Thanks for the time and energy to write the article. pentaxfan I love the article and picked up a few great tips! will Great article. niners.boi Do you think we can ever take [link] mainstream? I had the feeling of deja vu when reading some parts of it!

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? This person does not exist.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. Insightful post, as always Dave (2010-06-19) # Fortuitous that I should read your article now as its given me some great pointers and refreshers on things I (should) already know. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea.