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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. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. 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. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Captain Recruiter.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". What would the equivalent at a school look like?

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Chances increase if there seems to be a philosophical bent to the content. Thats just me, though. Id also like to see a bit more about, well, who the heck are you?

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Which language should my startup use?

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Ruby on Rails doesnt scale? 37signals repopularised Ruby this way, and last.fm These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. PHP is insecure? have been beavering away with Haskell.

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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.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. I don’t know any developers.