I am looking for $100K for my NFT marketplace project. How can you help me?
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#22Hey mate, sounds good. Would you consider registering a profile at https://www.libhunt.com/devs? That way, your profile/pitch may reach even more people. Cheers!
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#23I’d like to be CTO / VP of engineering one day. How did you get to that point? What roles did you do before that to be able to step up into being taken seriously for that kind of role? I’m in the odd? Position of being more commercially experienced and less technically experienced than most (senior)/software engineers. Right now I fall into wanting to prove my chops technically and building new products/ mvp’s while…
Great question and one many of my very talented engineering friends express. My suggestions (in no particular order):
1. Title inflation is a thing. I got my first CTO role in my late 20's and this was partially due to hopping on with a very early stage startup that needed tech direction/leadership/IC work. Getting exec roles in your younger years is much harder with larger more established companies.
2. Learn the whole stack. If you are the VPoE/CTO of a smaller company, people expect you to have the answers for everything tech. You pick the servers, infrastructure, code styles, architecture, frameworks, etc.
3. People are everything on a team. Before you are in one of these roles, spend some time understanding challenges people face in companies you work for, across departments. Grab lunches with people, talk to them about work. Some problems can be solved with an hour of coding a script for them. Most are more complicated, but developing this empathy and willingness to understand was crucial for me.
4. Being able to interview and hire well is an undervalued skillset in the tech industry. Involve yourself in those processes early to start understanding it. Remember that as CTO of a small/mid size company you may have final say on all tech hires as well as being the one who determines when positions are posted.
5. Grow comfortable with the unknown. There is a lot of on-the-job training for your first or second CTO run. Trust that you are smart and deserve where you are. You can figure this out.
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#24You’re selling in a place where there are no buyers.
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#25is there a service for this? i mean i hate the fact that everything has to be an app, but i'm in a similar boat. i've been trying to get more out of life by engaging with other people (outside a commerical context), but its hard to keep jobs coming.
Well,there's a whole field called Expert Networks for people to share their work experience, although it's in the commercial context. Currently is mostly targeted to investment funds and consultancy companies but it starts to be used by big corporates and smaller businesses.
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#26is there a service for this? i mean i hate the fact that everything has to be an app, but i'm in a similar boat. i've been trying to get more out of life by engaging with other people (outside a commerical context), but its hard to keep jobs coming.
Well,there's a whole field called Expert Networks for people to share their work experience, although it's in the commercial context. Currently is mostly targeted to investment funds and consultancy companies but it starts to be used by big corporates and smaller businesses.
thanks, but i was really looking for something more immediate and human. i've done pretty well providing metal fabrication for artists, but there are only are so many artists in my circle that need that kind of work and cant do it themselves.
would like to do tech - but not for money, and not really websites (?) i mostly do systems programming...have managed to do a little embedded
(i'm also less qualified to talk about investment and finance than a 3 yr old)
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#27Please use your knowledge of engineering to help this scenario:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30236248
TY!
(This series was started in part due to your title-tag from this very posting!)
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#28You’re selling in a place where there are no buyers.
I wouldn't say that really, there's quite a few people here (including me) who just barely have our foot in the door and would love advice from experienced people such as OP.
Now whether the format of the post is acceptable to the kind of website HN is, I'm not quite sure, though I have seen submissions like these popping up more and more as of recently.
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#29is there a service for this? i mean i hate the fact that everything has to be an app, but i'm in a similar boat. i've been trying to get more out of life by engaging with other people (outside a commerical context), but its hard to keep jobs coming.
A few threads:
Volunteering
Open source
Teaching
Meetups
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#30is there a service for this? i mean i hate the fact that everything has to be an app, but i'm in a similar boat. i've been trying to get more out of life by engaging with other people (outside a commerical context), but its hard to keep jobs coming.
Maybe we could add some string, say, "HN Volunteer" to our HN or LinkedIn profiles? These profiles are easily searchable, so there would be no need for building a new app.