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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Bless you, chile! If you are a non-technical type and you really, really think you have a unique idea and you have some secret sauce -- unique content, a proprietary system, or an exclusive business relationship -- that nobody else can duplicate, first try to find a CTO-type to partner with you. This is really helpful, Derek.