Up and Running
OCTOBER 13, 2022
As you find your footing and begin to scale, you might feel ready to hire a formal executive team. What’s right for one company may not make sense for another, but the goal is always the same — to hire talent that will ultimately help the business thrive. When is the right time to hire an executive team?
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.
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SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2012
I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Do you have dollars to pay for development?
blog.alinelerner.com
JUNE 21, 2013
Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.
www.inc.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 21, 2013
As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. After six months, I was able to sign up a local CTO to help build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that enabled me to secure funding. He hired a few ace developers for the Argentinean team and everything seemed like smooth sailing.
www.entrepreneur.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). However, your partner could just as easily have argued that her sweat equity is worth $250,000 since that's what a prototype would have cost you to make had you hired a prototype development firm. Play Video. Play Video.
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