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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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How many cofounders should your startup have?

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Hire everyone you need as an employee. We started our online backup company with five in 2008, and all five are still running the company today. After launching our Windows online backup service five years ago, our CTO pitched that we should focus on launching our Mac version next. One” – You have to have a cofounder.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Call it facts for hire. Hiring The Right Candidate. But I don’t think so.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO.

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How much should you pay an executive in a startup company?

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CompStudy publishes an annual report of equity and cash compensation that provides compensation data on top management positions and Boards of Directors at private companies in technology and life sciences. The 2008 results are available on Altgate and are also embedded below. Head of Technology/CTO 1.19%. President/COO 2.58%.

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Which language should my startup use?

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Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. A team of poor developers won’t just take longer to deliver a solution: they’ll build something which is insecure and complex, and subsequent modifications will become increasingly costly with time.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

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Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Date for a bit, then split the equity. No one funded us. Go to job fairs.

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