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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

Thursday, 8 March 2012. The greatest obstacle to starting a tech company in 2012 will be the shortage of entrepreneurial tech talent, says Andy Young, who explains why there appears such a shortage of qualified people around to help you get your idea off the ground – and what to do about it. New technology for enquiring minds.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Getting Hired. Will an marketer commit to promoting a OSS project?

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Women 2.0 ยป FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

Conference 2012. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

In 2012 I sustained a spinal cord injury, and discovered the world of neurological physical rehabilitation. They needed a way to use their website to its full potential, but they either didnโ€™t have time or money to hire a marketer. Since I’m not a coder by profession, building a website is out of the question.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe. Maple Butter. Persistence.

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How to Think Like a Hacker, Even if You Canโ€™t Code

David Teten

I havenโ€™t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but thereโ€™s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life. The four highest-paying degrees in 2012 are engineering, computer science, physics, and mathematics.

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