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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. Research the cost of advertising your product. If it's not financially viable, abandon it.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. I'd be happy to sign an nda. He says that intentional Web 2.0 A keyword is not a brand, where there’s emotional connection with the words.”

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Standard 1-way/bi-lateral NDA's, standard templates for an employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company are on my wish-list too. it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. Technical issues are fixed for Firefox users (thanks Rob for the comment). Posted by: twang | 03/02/2010 at 10:47 AM.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. The lack of that mention makes me question the overall quality of the conclusions.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.

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