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How to Hire a Chief Technology Officer

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500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. Duncan Connor • Jan 4, 2011 I was about to provide an answer, but then read this response and realized Saul had already provided an even better response than I would have done.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). However, your partner could just as easily have argued that her sweat equity is worth $250,000 since that's what a prototype would have cost you to make had you hired a prototype development firm. Play Video. Play Video.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

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He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. We’re going to ask him exactly how he did that. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business.