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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. But that’s outsourcing development — it does not mean have a boundaryless team. Hire anyone who fits the culture and mission of your company wherever they live.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. 2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. About Eric.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Disclaimer: I don’t know if I am (or ever was) a hardcore back-end developer. I did make money for a long time doing web-scale development work for a bunch of companies. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. I started coding in the 80s. So what was 2look4?

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems.

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