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How I Found a Great CTO

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Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. This time, I decided to handle the process myself. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app. Of course, if you’re hiring an agency, you’re probably looking at 1.5

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Ruby specialists. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Coworking Spaces and Accelerators.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. I found the group of Ruby enthusiasts in SFRuby to be quite active and social. I volunteered as a teaching assistant in Sarahs very first class teaching Ruby and the two of us became good friends.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Jonathan Marino – PE Hub.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. You have two avenues open to you.