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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. A quick search of linkedin will help you locate a fractional CTO in your area. There are two types of CTO’s: Up-and-Out, and Down-and-In.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. As the volume of startups increases, big companies will start to develop standardized procedures that make acquisitions little more work than hiring someone. Googles example should cure the rest of the world of this idea.

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

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sunday edit : Still going!

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