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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Ill start with four general guidelines for how to proceed with a hiring decision.

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. He has spent a lot of time thinking about what users really want to do to solve information overload problems. Good design is winning all over the web--at sites like Mint, Twitter,and Quora.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired. Reply Nivi , on September 11, 2009 at 11:17 pm Said: One of the subtle lessons here for founder CEOs: you light a fuse on your own job as soon as you hire the first VP of Sales. innovation. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

99designs Logo Design : For about the same cost of hiring one local or freelance designer to create a logo for you, you can use 99designs to run a contest that will bring in dozens of logo options from dozens of different designers. .” This is our answer.” ” -Sabrina Parsons, Chief Executive Officer. For Marketing.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team. Drowning American. Post navigation.