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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. However, it’s more important that the CTO have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to manage a team effectively.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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

blog.expensify.com

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) 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? Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. Like what?!

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