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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

Reputation will be as important as ever in 2018—only now, it’s more about your brand identity spread through digital channels. It’s pointless to have five social media profiles— pick one to two networks that bring you best ROI and keep on interacting with users. Use scheduling software for social media and be consistent.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

It's also the sad fact that there's often a desire to bring someone in who has a bigger reputation and likely experience with larger startups that have gone through M&A or IPO. Learning, Networking, Mentors From the question, this person is clearly looking at the issue of how to grow into this role. You could even use LinkedIn.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Increase brand reputation. This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason [.] Sometimes text messages can be delayed due to network issues—it's a pain. ?? So receiving an apology can reduce financial aspirations and make it possible for parties to enter into discussions about settlement.

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Choosing Bad Competition

Reid Hoffman

Meanwhile, that identity wouldn’t just bring job offers – it would also facilitate networking and other business opportunities like partnerships, consulting, and many more. It’s structurally very difficult to change their DNA from being mechanical engineering companies to being software engineering companies.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

And then leaving, going and experiencing the wider world, getting an education, doing computer engineering work in a bunch of different places, there's momentum that's built there, you're gathering connections and your network and experience and job opportunities and et cetera. I had no network on the West coast.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. So it can be done.