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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. Solid leadership is essential to the success of any team.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Business Quotes

Hearpreneur

We’re an EdTech platform building an admissions social network connecting applicants with other applicants, and schools, students and alumni. I need to embody confidence, leadership and vision. At least re-assess them periodically. 10) Embrace Failure. If I want to be successful, I need to beat the successful one.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Without requiring a lot of meetings, it changes the perspective of the team (and its leadership) from fire-fighting to prevention. 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.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. So far we have been very effective using blogs, social networks, etc.

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson?

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