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

The Next Web

Kiran was one of our toughest hires. It was like fundraising due diligence all over again. in physics and he’s a gifted coder, but he never seems to mind taking the time to explain it to me in a way that I can understand. We knew he had options. We thought that we were in the lead for him culture-fit wise.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup?

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

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The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. How false expertise leads us to hire the wrong people. In short, we seek to validate our own characteristics: Hiring someone who’s like us reinforces our own value. Reduce the noise.

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

www.women2.org

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. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team.

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

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there.

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