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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. And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Andrew Warner of Mixergy conducted an excellent interview yesterday with an iPhone application development firm who have developed almost a dozen iPhone apps using online contract workers. Odesk - I have less experience with oDesk - but I have found good developers on the site.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).