Your friends are terrible hires
Your friends are terrible hires. Not because they lack skill. Because you'll never treat them like employees. I did it years ago. Almost destroyed friendships...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
Your friends are terrible hires. Not because they lack skill. Because you'll never treat them like employees. I did it years ago. Almost destroyed friendships...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
Your $60K junior hire actually costs $160K. You think you save budget. You actually burn your most expensive asset: your focus. Most solo founders...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
Cheap talent is high-interest debt. You think a $40K hire saves cash. It doesn't. It just pushes the cost to the rebuild. Cheap engineers build what you ask...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
Forget about getting hired if you don't tick 100% of the boxes. That's the absurd reality of today's job market. Your résumé could scream value. But if it...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
Cracking the market, Lunchr is looking for dozens of talents for its roster to satisfy our ambitions during this already crazy year! I'm particularly looking...
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO

Early-stage CTO helping founders build scalable software and teams from MVP to $5M+ ARR without burnout.
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