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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

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Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development. Certainly, knowing software development in general and web development specially cannot hurt in anyway.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.

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

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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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.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Microsoft became obsessed with COM, OLE and felt that it was the future of software development. 15 minutes. How did MSFT lose the API war?