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How I Found a Great CTO

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Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs

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"Our plan is to have seven figure revenues and be profitable by Q3, in addition to to seven new hires by end of the year," he says. Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. Current customers have helped to improve our analytics.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. You have to ensure that the right people come in at the right time, and you have the right decor, ambiance and music.

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Entrepreneurial Change We Can All Believe In

Growthink Blog

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Boyan Josic’s Daily Deal Media Conference in Chicago. And it was an even greater coincidence that I ended up watching part of his “jobs” speech at the same hotel where many of his 2008 presidential campaign events were held. Hire a programmer here, a freelance public relations staffer there.

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10 Startup Red Flags

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Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. Yeah me neither.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. What’s positive about Washington’s new Social Purpose Corporations. Cheezburger’s ‘Luddite’ CTO Scott Porad on why his job beats laying railroad ties. Are you Tableau? Guest Posts. 07/06/2012.

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How to Hire a Chief Technology Officer

www.inc.com

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.