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    <title>Fixed price vs time and materials: which contract actually protects you</title>
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    <description>Software agencies aren&#39;t slow because their engineers are slow. The delay is structural — and once you can see the structure, you can buy around it.</description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A practical technical due diligence checklist for founders, investors and incoming CTOs: what to look at, in what order, and what changes the price.</description>
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    <title>I was a founder before I was a CTO. Here&#39;s what I got wrong.</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Running VipKing taught me more about engineering leadership than any engineering job — mostly by showing which instincts fail when you carry the risk.</description>
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    <title>What Yuzz and NEXT taught me that still holds up twelve years later</title>
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