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How to find a good programmer or web developer

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first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. This is the kind of coder you are looking for. This post is about outsourcing coders.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Femgineer Coder. HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Also, many software developers you meet are pure coders at heart, preferring to work from a well-defined scope and an established specification, and lacking the crucial CTO talent of transforming a project from pure vision into engineering process. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Blog at WordPress.com.

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results.

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1985: Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever

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He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there. And for many, 2008 and 2009 seems very far in the distant past, even though it still massively impacts others in a very negative way. That night I met Dave Jilk, my first business partner and one of my best friends.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

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Failing to find a coder whose vision aligned with ours, we ended up coding ActivityDeck website ourselves. In the summer of 2008, I took a week’s vacation from my full-time job, which I promptly spent holed up in my apartment, sketching out the blueprint for my future business. A mobile app is on its way. 6 – Forging a New Path.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

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December 10th, 2008 | Becoming a Better Developer Building your startup? Cheers Kevin #3 Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for December 11, 2008 on 12.11.08 9 Recession Proof Your Programming Skills - Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal on 04.16.09 Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. at 11:31 am [.]