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Leadership Matters: CTOs as Leaders in Dev Team and Project Management for Startups

Are you fed up with stories about how frankly bad products, thanks to well-thought-out marketing, bring their owners millions and understand that this is not your case at all? Let’s imagine that you even enlisted the support of top developers in your region – however, unfortunately, this does not increase the risk of failure. How, then, can you avoid getting into trouble? Let's figure it out.


We Know the Ideal Solution

So, who do you need? – you may ask.

 

In a nutshell, if you have a limited budget and neither the time nor the financial ability to hire a C-level specialist on staff (actually, most often, startups do not need this), you should consider cooperating with a virtual chief technology officer.

 

Yes, we mean a specialist who will align your business goals with the technology stack of your solution, help train your team in the necessary hard skills and motivate them, determine the project architecture, draw up a roadmap, help with writing a detailed whitepaper, present the project in a favorable light to investors, and much more. In fact, the list of responsibilities always depends on the specific case, so you can create your own requirements for your future virtual chief technology officer.

 

It is worth noting that by choosing CTO as a Service for business, you get many more advantages than when hiring locally. Considering the extensive experience of specialists of this level and their high demand, finding them in the region, even with a saturated market of IT offers, is not so easy. That is why, in many cases, CTO as a Service is not only a cost-effective but also a faster option for filling the required vacancy.

 

In addition, note that CTO services provided in a remote format are often more flexible in terms of planning – you can interact with an expert according to a schedule convenient for you, and it will not necessarily be five working days a week (after all, as practice shows, project owners have to resort to CTO consulting services much less frequently).

 

Another great advantage of CTO as a Service for startups is the ability to achieve cost savings due to the difference in local rates – if your remote contractor is physically located in a country where the rates for IT specialists are lower than in yours, you will be able to save a lot of money without losing the final quality solutions.

 

In general, based on all of the above, we can conclude that a virtual Chief Technology Officer is a worthwhile option for teams that work on projects with frequently changing requirements that are difficult to reconcile with the business vision of their owners.


Final Thoughts

Now you know how important it is to scale your in-house team in time by an outsourced CTO as a Service and are looking for a reliable digital provider that would offer you talents that fully meet your requirements. By the way, we can estimate the CTO as a Service cost in your specific case. In general, if you are planning to outsource Chief Technology Officer, don’t hesitate – feel free to contact us.

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