blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. I just have a hard time evaluating competence of business co-founders. I'll need damn good evidence of your competence (e.g. If your idea is bad you have nothing to bring to the table because you have no other skills to offer as a non technical co-founder. Captain Recruiter.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. But I don’t think so.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Unless the founding team has *competent* developers in these areas, the venture is doomed.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. I was just looking at your web site.

Java 107

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. THANK YOU!!!

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