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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will provide strategic technical guidance and direction with attention to scalability, security, quality, maintainability, and reliability. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. Security needs to be top of mind for any CTO.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. 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.&#

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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. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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