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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire. Tiny, contracting market.

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