Hi, On Jan 13, 2008 12:41 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:11:20AM +0200, aviv sher wrote: > > > > a young startup company with a very interesting web 2.0 platform is seeking > > for a > > PHP programmer with knowledge in AJAX HTML or any other 3-4 letters > > combinations that has to do with web or open source! > > > > This programmer will eventually become the CTO of the company... not to > > mention partnership! > > IMHO probably not. If you have already decided the technologies, which > is what you said in the begining of this post, then there really is no > longer an opening for a CTO.
Why? only because he decided to go with PHP? it's a stat-up, and I assume Aviv started to write the code with PHP prior deciding upon taking someone else to be a partner/worker and with a CTO title. Maybe when they'll grow, the CTO will decide what tech to use and what won't go in. I've seen so many start-ups that started with some LAMP and then "resized" to something bigger after doing some meetings with the staff and the CTO had the final word what to implement. > What you are looking for is a programmer who will be given the title > of CTO as an inducment to take less or no money, but will never be allowed > to actually make any technology decisions. A real CTO would leave out of > frustration, a "young" programmer will never sucessfully make the transition > from doing it all themeselves to running a group. I'm looking for a job these days, and one thing that I learned (the hard way, unfortunately) is to see if this start-up has any funds, angels/VC/investors that stands behind those startup prior to signing a contract. Any employee who is going to sign in startup should look for press-release from those angels/VC/investors, or do some serious Google search prior signing. I agree with Geoff regarding the CTO title. It's way there in the future and you don't know if the startup will be succeed to have any CTO, and any programmer who will take this job should not take this promise as a "bonus" or as something to work for less money. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
