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It depends on what you define as skill. Some skills can only be obtained through experience. However, experience alone is meaningless. These guys do sound like
by sayhello 18y ago
It depends on what you define as skill. Some skills can only be obtained through experience. However, experience alone is meaningless.
These guys do sound like they don't know what they are doing, and them looking for someone with skills in specific technologies only might be a bad idea.
Instead of those specific skills only, for a CTO, they should perhaps look for someone with broad knowledge (or willingness to learn) of their problem/solution domain (web application development for instance), as well as solid technical ability.
- swombat 18y agoInstead of those specific skills only, for a CTO, they should perhaps look for someone with broad knowledge (or willingness to learn) of their problem/solution domain (web application development for instance), as well as solid technical ability. Indeed... at the moment it seems like a case of the blind leading the blind. The fact is, all their VC links and grand plans will come to nothing at all unless they have execution ability. And they have no execution ability until they have a technology director - the kind whose back you can build a company on. Those are rare enough. The technology of choice or even the level of experience should be of no consequence. They need a 1 or 2 in this taxonomy: http://www.devtopics.com/programmer-productivity-the-tenfinity-factor/ http://www.devtopics.com/programmer-productivity-the-tenfini... Daniel