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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. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. I started coding in the 80s.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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Twitter Link Roundup #74 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. 30 Beautiful Nature Inspired Web Designs – [link].

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. I would not claim (atleast, not here) that this is the right way to write every program,but its certainly the right way to write software for a startup.In

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