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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both?

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

So, here goes: Dr. Tony Karrer Over the past 15 years, Tony has been a part-time CTO for more than 30 startups. Most notably, he was the original CTO for eHarmony for its first four years making him partly responsible for more than 4% of the marriages every year. Tony has a Ph.D.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com , which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com , a cloud-based backup company. At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources – lack of funds, lack of manpower, lack of time. Contract Remote Teams On A Per Project Basis. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. If you email the same boilerplate pitch to 60 publications, believe me, journalists can tell.

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How many cofounders should your startup have?

The Next Web

Hire everyone you need as an employee. After being part of a team of five that co-founded a fairly successful company and still have the original team together after half a decade, here’s what I learned about having cofounders. The required number of cofounders for success is: “Zero” – You don’t need a cofounder. Sometimes I’m wrong.

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