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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? How can we address this risk? Accounting?

CTO Coach 231
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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

Companies such as Microsoft, Facebook and Google have all established employee referral programs that give employees monetary rewards for referring friends who get hired. If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers.