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Are You ‘Hands On’ Enough To Succeed In A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. You need to show the team every day how your vision relates to their everyday tasks, with real examples that you can demonstrate. If a team member has a plan that is too ambitious and likely to set them up for failure, he or she needs your direct mentoring to dial it back.

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Entrepreneurs Better Enjoy Getting Their Hands Dirty

Startup Professionals Musings

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. You need to show the team every day how your vision relates to their everyday tasks, with real examples that you can demonstrate. If a team member has a plan that is too ambitious and likely to set them up for failure, he or she needs your direct mentoring to dial it back.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. For example it includes the following kinds of things that a CTO should be addressing, but that may not be part of the expectation, time allocation, etc. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build?

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