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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will review and negotiate all related contracts. Down-and-In CTO’s are expected to solve really hard technical problems; Up-and-Out CTO’s are expected to explain to the rest of the world the value of the really hard technical problems their company has solved. There are two types of CTO’s: Up-and-Out, and Down-and-In.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In essense, let the market design the product. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them. Googles example should cure the rest of the world of this idea. We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. Alcides Fonseca.

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