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Advisors aren’t pokemon (but they are magical)

The Startup Toolkit

If the founding team is non-technical and you can’t figure out whether you are being screwed by your developers or whether your potential new CTO is amazing, a tech advisor can help by joining you in interviews and reviewing commits. You’ll need to keep hiring tech guys. And sometimes it’s super ambiguous.

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What to expect before accepting the offer to become Engineer #1 at a startup

The Next Web

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. A reason might be that negotiation techniques are not a part of their training. Cap tables sound intimidating. Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted.

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