SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? You will find firms that are design/interface heavy and light on development. Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. Or are you starting from scratch?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder AskBob: Where do I find developer cofounder? Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard Need a Technical Co-founder?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. In Bob’s post, he tells startup founders to get smart on product design, software architecture and development process. We both felt that most startups are not taking a very systematic approach to defining with they need in terms of advisors. That’s great advice.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire. The founder had tried or considered: Web Search – not all that useful – more design firms that development firms LinkedIn – searched for people, but gave up pretty quickly as it felt like a needle in a haystack. My methods are pretty vanilla.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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JULY 13, 2011

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