Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Great strategy.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup?

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success. So I thought, “I am good!” What happened?

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Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Review the code being built.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In most instances they still require some development, but it’s the kind that you can generally easily hire. For Non-Trival Tasks It’s Hard to Hire Good Developers The obvious way past this hurdle would be to hire the skills you are missing.

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Web Technical Review Developer Cofounder 40

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

When they see a problem with the teams process, why dont they just fix it? And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

It took Joel awhile to realize that “If you’re hiring very bright people, let them do their damn job&#. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. 15 minutes. How did MSFT lose the API war?

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285