In the most recent case, I was actually hired as a non-coding high level tech consultant, to help hire and oversee a tech team, at a very chaotic but fast growi

In the most recent case, I was actually hired as a non-coding high level tech consultant, to help hire and oversee a tech team, at a very chaotic but fast growing startup. For various reasons, we had to go most of 6 months with only 1 hire, when we had initially planned to hire 10 engineers. So I was forced to step in and start coding, because the team was desperately short of coding talent. The startup is hopefully going to hire a real teach team early next year. My typical consulting is something I talk about here: http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-ethics-of-being-a-high-level-tech-consultant-a-fractional-cto http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-ethics-of-being-a-h...