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TechCrunch+ roundup: Zendesk rejects $17B offer, sidewalk robots, recruiting survey

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Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

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Since then, the startup has made some significant moves beyond just the funding, including growing to a total of 18 employees and bringing on aerospace industry veteran and former Airbus CTO Christine Tovee. “Christine had been on our technical board of advisors for quite some time,” he said.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

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Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware. As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. Build a culture people want to join But you can’t market a culture that doesn’t exist. That won’t work.”

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. In a growing technology market, Nikolic waited for the right opportunity. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says.

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Hiring a CTO for Your Startup

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Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

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When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Do you see the role of a college degree diminishing in the IT talent market? Do you want a full-time job?

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Capitalize, a startup that wants to make it easy to roll over your 401(k), closes on $12.5M Series A

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While I enjoyed investing, I started peeling back the layers and saw a host of systemwide problems with the 401(k) market,” he recalls. Sharma teamed up with CTO Chris Phillips in late 2019 to form Capitalize, which went on to raise a $2 million seed round last March led by Bling Capital.

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