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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

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You really need to get with your development team and if you don’t know what the word responsive is, ask them and make them make your website that. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming.

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

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Expensify Blog. Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. It’s funny how you’re using the MOST SUCCESSFUL food chain as your analogy to.NET developers. « chawisa's blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Some additional comments at the end.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.