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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower

Exploring new technologies? But be careful, and mind the gap – the Founder-Developer Gap, that is! But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Founder-Developer Gap How big is your startup’s Founder-Developer Gap? And how can you tell?

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude.

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Founder Interview: Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of SoStereo, Marketing with Music

The Startup Magazine

As part of our Founder interview series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of the SoStereo, a marketing firm that enables brands and artists alike to unlock the marketing power of music. Salo built on his background as a music producer and engineer to see the power of music in advertising.

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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

Honor Technology, Inc. , the world’s largest senior care network and technology platform which recently acquired global home care provider Home Instead , today announced it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing. and ultimately our solutions will take care of our own generation when we’re older.”

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Startup founders make decisions on a daily basis – significant decisions that will have lasting impact on their business. The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. No good innovator turns down advice!

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

It provides findings and recommendations intended to foster a mutual understanding between business and software leaders, shedding light on the current state of your technology and your team. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. It also provides concrete recommendations for improvements.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. One of my favourite pieces has been The Abundance Agenda , a deck on how AI will transform consumer technology, packing inside areas of opportunity, or in other words, requests for startups.