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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. Instead, they find options and can communicate them to everyone in the company. Find the 80/20 - this was my favorite part of the job. Sometimes, youre in a meeting where someone wants to build a new feature. They might do anything !

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Women 2.0 ยป FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder. Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Not only did users start signing up for backup of the hosted photo services they were using, but they started requesting additional services as well—Google Docs, Basecamp, blogs, even their web e-mail. With this round, Backupify is going to be able to sharpen its product and business focus, and make some much needed engineering hires.

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