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Startup CTO: Could It Work?

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Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I think the part time CTO could work. They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

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If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. But it does require some new thinking.

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

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He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. Jono Bacon: So in the business world, when you can get your team to collaborate together and to work together and everybody feels connected by the mission of the business, then you tend to get happier, more effective, more proactive employees.

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Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? - Quora

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Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This answer. Please specify the necessary improvements.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. This happens a lot. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen. good post.

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

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Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Catalin Braescu • Nov 15, 2010 this rockstar conversation is nonsense - the more experienced the more hurdles will be created imbo. I've been the technical co-founder or first tech employee at three companies in a row (I'm CEO of the fourth). For your employees?

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

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Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). 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. More comments at the end. Jens Söderberg.

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