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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.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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These three roles are critical in an early-stage company, so if a non-technical co-founder can bring two of them to a startup while also being able to bridge the communications to technical people, you will be in a much better position. Be wary of the generic response templates (ie.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. They are anyone who runs his/her own business.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find the answers below by Cody Riddar that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view. You, a creative guy?

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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. Opportunity Management: Now that I had a few people of interest, the courtship began. You might as well hire an outsourced team. However, I needed to actually build it!

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Maple Butter.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college. No phone system.