Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. Understand that people are motivated to be a part of a larger vision and to work with someone they believe in.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

As a hiring manager, and as the former CTO of Buy.com, Navid Nobakht , Co-Founder of Recmnd.Me ([link] had a problem--how to really figure out if someone he was hiring could actually execute. The problem we're trying to solve, is one I found from in my experience as a hiring manager in the IT industry.

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you? It’s important.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

That has really improved our consistency, our delivery, our service offerings, and online resources for our students. That's a big part of it. It might not be problems in geometry, it might be because students can't add fractions in algebra. This allows those teachers to identify skill gaps. Jake got a similar amount.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. My next five posts will be focused on 5 tips that I put together for dealing with the tech resource challenge: 1. So, you need to develop a product? Scrappy versus Steady 2.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. Sacrifice and time commitment. An important key is NOT to dodge the discussion up front, come to some agreement quickly, and write it down.

Startup 101

Startup Entrepreneur Equity CTO Hire 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. Sacrifice and time commitment. An important key is NOT to dodge the discussion up front, come to some agreement quickly, and write it down.

Equity 91

Equity Startup CTO Hire CTO Coach 91