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‘I don’t know’: Why admitting you don’t have all the answers is perfectly okay

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It was like fundraising due diligence all over again. One place I’ve always struggled to say I don’t know is when talking with engineers about technical stuff beyond my knowledge. Fairly regularly, one of our engineers, Aaron O’Connell, will take time to explain what it is he’s working on. He’s got a Ph.D.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google. Also try a search on LinkedIn.

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Lessons Learned: Not Vetting Vendors Can Be a 5-Figure Mistake

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From dinner recipes to peculiar medical problems, a search engine holds the answers. They wanted to create a search engine-like site that would allow small businesses to find retail, industrial and office space in specific areas. They started looking for website coders and settled on a company they liked.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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