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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. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. When to start recruiting?

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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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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects.

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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." Do the engineers understand what they are building? The mechanical steps, the culture of how its done, how they evaluate success, how they cope with failure. Do they measure?

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Neither is true – they just have their incentives all messed up.

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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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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.