mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

CTO Hire 73

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Ill start with four general guidelines for how to proceed with a hiring decision.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. The best way to avoid this is by covering all your legal bases by hiring an attorney. Hire a professional. Stay online.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

More often than not, hiring managers rely on trusted recommendations and evaluate applicants based on tangible things they have accomplished. The open platform showcases candidates’ creations, free to inspect and critique. GitHub shows hiring managers what they have accomplished. Does anyone even read your resume anyway?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

Artificial Inteligence 413

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

We have decided to “open source” our language in the hopes that other VCs will use this clause and/or improve upon it so that as an industry we can proactively drive the change we want to see rather than just hoping it will happen. “We We see this as an open source inclusion clause. It is being launched today?—?International

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system with various templates used for building a website. But after figuring out the budget and scale of the business, owners might need to consider the option of hiring professional web developers. Women starting a business at home can learn to build a site on WordPress.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It's the same as going to the gym when you hire a personal trainer. The fact is, that between agile, lean, open-source, teal, and dozens of other philosophies of work out there, there are a lot of principles floating around--a lot of wisdom and aphorisms and ways of thinking and mindsets.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Open metaverse: these are the decentralized platforms built on crypto, such as Manticore Games, Sandbox or Decentraland and many others. That’s why games like Fortnite or PubG make billions selling “skins” (virtual clothes) or why users inside Animal Crossing hire real-world interior designers to help them create beautiful virtual homes.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” You name it.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ. 12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1m97mzy. Hiring startup engineers? WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Particularly if she is at what is essentially a co-founder speed dating event.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 2, 2013

Work for Pie , a startup for helping open-source developers get hired, today announced it will be shutting down on August 31. See also – Work for Pie closes a $300,000 round to reinvent open-source dev recruiting and Focusing on open-source, Work for Pie is changing the way programmers are hired.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You've built up some kind of a relationship over time--because recruiting (as opposed to hiring ) is a long term game. You actively contribute to open source projects as part of your development. They believe in you, the founder. I can undoubtedly intro you today to 3-4 awesome teams hiring right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online. But those of you who do get funded will build stronger businesses, make better returns, hire better & more committed employees.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, reminds us that the business of launching a clothing brand is as important as the artistry: Fashion is amazing in the way it balances art and commerce, but it’s a business. There’s a terrific book about this from the founder of Nike, Phil Knight – Shoe Dog.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. If there’s anything that hackers and founders hate, it’s an ivory tower attitude. 3) Open source your real estate. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.” break the silos!

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Go for open source tools. One of the ways of doing that is by using the open source tools for the job. Most of the open source tools are available for free and have a good community support. The open source tools will save you lots of money which can be used in other jobs like marketing.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Common sense says youd do your best to hire or otherwise permanently engage that lead developer. The answer to that question is contextual, based on what you, as CEO, and your board believe your "Founder Developer Gap" (reference to the Tony Karrer blog entry ) to be. I think thats the person you need.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. He basically outsources everything. Branding/Copy.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

by Rachel Strella, founder of Strella Social Media. Some tips for helping you get you there include: Have a good website to serve as your business’s online hub (ideally, one with an Open-source CMS that’s feature-rich and offers the opportunity to take advantage of integrations, such as those for SEO and social media).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result. In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

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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.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. it doesn't much matter who you hire in terms of risk. Nice Article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Make sure you test to see if they are truly open minded, because otherwise you risk them banging their head against a wall, trying to use the tactics that worked so well in their previous company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 120

The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The solution to scaling people is “culture”, which is just a way to spread how the founders work and make decisions to the rest of the team. Our founders have a history together, so we already knew how everyone worked and remote was fine. But our first hire didn’t, so it wasn’t. A couple solutions exist.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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