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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. CTO Knowledge and Skill I personally believe that the best CTOs will have a technical/developer background. Some of the top symptoms are: Frequently missed deadlines.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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

www.quora.com

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. Rockstar v. You, a creative guy?

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

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it. But my coders will [.] [.].

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. THANK YOU!!! and that is good.