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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

After six months, I was able to sign up a local CTO to help build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that enabled me to secure funding. Front office teams (sales and marketing, for example) should be in their home market while the back office (IT and operations) can be anywhere. Not All Functions Need To Be Together.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Pitch an idea :) Usually somewhere in the pitch the listener will ask if you’d also be interested in being a CEO, CTO, etc at something they are already funding! Oh and I’m learning one other cool thing if I ever need it – you don’t need to hire a head hunter if you want a high level executive tech job.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. And from all the office chatter come norms and beliefs. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. According to Phillips: A few thousand records with a sufficient amount of positive and negative outcomes can be sufficient for marketing, sales, and product prediction.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come. Personally I cant imagine myself hiring devs from Odesk, etc. Very important!