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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China. And social media gave them all the ability to market their products in non-traditional ways.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. Details coming soon!) How did you do that?

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

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. Raising cash is an easy test. former successful start-up).

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. 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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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. This happens a lot. Better still, write your own post :) Ron Amen.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

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.