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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. The ideal R&D team is a small skunkworks that is off the radar of most people in the company. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO

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Leading the architecture and technical direction of the product - This is closely related to leading the development team, but it is really a different skill set. And there were several members of my team who were far more qualified at writing particular types of code than I was. Yep, I’m talking about the CEOs here.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.