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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

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Raising Venture Capital. Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Start-up Advice. Angel Topics.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

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The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Venture Capital & Technology'

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. In this case, figure out the technology platform you’re likely to use and go where the users gather.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. I think I just really feared working for the Man.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. Matt Sherman.

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