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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. Last, you will want to see whether your potential hire has technical chops.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. In teams that follow the "pick two" agenda, which two has to be resolved via a power play. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. I couldnt see that we were managing to pick even one.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.