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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. 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. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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How can startups engage with Google?

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There are four general buckets for engaging with a corporate like Google: Funding – this consists of cash investment for equity. This most likely involves a combination of an operational team (cloud, enterprise, commerce, etc) and the corporate development team, led by Don Harrison. Google for startups homepage.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” From this, the programmer will look for nouns and verbs, so start to think in those terms to help you communicate better. (A Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.