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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. When will key hires come on? Accounting?

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. View More in Boston ›.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served.

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

www.mint.com

Granted you don’t want to sound like you are interrogating them, but if there is sufficient interest on the company’s part in hiring you, they will expect you to ask those difficult questions. Ask me these questions, you’re definitely not hired. link] Please feel free to check us out! All Rights Reserved.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. Things like your secret sauce, things that are specific to how you do business and they are very, very important that you think about them as part of your business and not just things that are done eventually when you’re busting at the seams and you finally want to hire people.

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Which Investors Are Glad To Pay For Mediocre Performance?

David Teten

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. Teten : As a thought experiment, imagine a quant pure black box hedge fund, “UltraQuant,” which hires a lot of impressive PhDs.