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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. It's also the sad fact that there's often a desire to bring someone in who has a bigger reputation and likely experience with larger startups that have gone through M&A or IPO. But that's most often not the case.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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6 Lifehacks That Will Help You Save On Mobile App Development

YoungUpstarts

Alexander Grigoryan, the senior director for software engineering, application platform and online grocery for Walmart Global eCommerce, tells that his team looked at various options for building its cross-platform apps. The most beautiful part of React Native, however, is that its apps perform almost identically to native. .

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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

Reputation will be as important as ever in 2018—only now, it’s more about your brand identity spread through digital channels. Thomas is a software engineer at an app development agency and a fan of everything IT, mobile and tech-related. Build a solid online image.

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Choosing Bad Competition

Reid Hoffman

They hadn’t invested in product development for decades, and relied on buying Russian-made engines because they were cheaper. The company was able to adopt new technologies like reusable rockets, better engines, and more efficient manufacturing – which had been developed for decades but ignored by the big players.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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SX Startups: wrnch Expands Interaction

Austin Startup

The wrnchAI engine is a real-time AI platform to digitize human motion and behavior from standard video. We want to make the wrnchAI engine the de facto standard for visual human machine interaction. We have been working on the engine for two years with key partners and will be officially launching it at NVIDIA GTC in March.

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