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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

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I think there are abundant non-technical factors that lead to a startup’s success, and the responsibility for making those things happen tends to fall on the shoulders of the non-technical people (assuming the company has those – in our case, we did). Technical support, and a team of developers does not an IT department make.

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup « WePay.com

blog.wepay.com

I think there are abundant non-technical factors that lead to a startup’s success, and the responsibility for making those things happen tends to fall on the shoulders of the non-technical people (assuming the company has those – in our case, we did). Technical support, and a team of developers does not an IT department make.