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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] This is dangerous, the author argues, to the development of an adaptable, thoughtful culture. article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do.

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Don’t hire people you know!

David Teten

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] This is dangerous, the author argues, to the development of an adaptable, thoughtful culture. article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda. Baughman is Calxeda’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. The things you learn in tough environments.

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Startup Hiring: The 10% Solution

www.readwriteweb.com

Need $25,000 for product development? developers. developers. ReadWriteWeb | Startups | Small Business | Enterprise | Cloud Computing | Developers | Mobile. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. Potential employees, at least the good ones, arent interested. Theyd rather start their own companies.". No problem.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems.