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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Your product must solve an actual need, have a profitable market size, differentiate itself from the competition, generate sufficient interest from your target market, be cost-effective to produce in a timely manner, and have a clear marketing path. Research the cost of advertising your product. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. I see there is no support for the assertions that the benfits of using standardized documents outweights the costs of customizing and negotiating important issues. Posted by: Ted Wang | 03/02/2010 at 06:29 AM. Posted by: Peter Leahy | 03/02/2010 at 07:33 AM.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. I'd be happy to sign an nda. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don’t rely on it (more on this later). How much will this cost? But producing a professional and slick product costs money. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. It is often said that bootstrapping is cheap.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source.

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Top 10 Common Mistakes By First-Time Online Entrepreneurs

Kodorra

Oh and by the way, typically angel investors don’t sign NDA (non-disclosure agreement), so they are most probably losing out on the cash too. Generally, it doesn’t cost you a fortune to start an online business compared to a shop. Total that up would probably cost you $100 or less.