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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. For me, if I can help you within a couple hours Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions , I’m happy to do that and I don’t expect compensation or equity for that. Here’s the other aspect that both Tony and I preach: get help. That’s great advice.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team

Frank Addante

Build a SWAT team By Frank Addante (Part 4 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Any entrepreneur, CEO or CTO should always have a development SWAT team on hand. The SWAT team helped us kick-start the project and get it to market in less time that it would have taken us to interview and hire a small team.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Personally, I think the best products are designed, architected and built all at the same time. (As Ive hired some of my best people straight out of college, taxi cab drivers and have even stolen coffee makers from Starbucks. So, find Scrappy engineers, hire them, motivate them, keep them happy and keep them challenged.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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