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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

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Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that? Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring.

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

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by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Building an infrastructure to automate internal testing allows companies to develop a deployable, scalable, working prototype to the market– and work with customers to meet their needs. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. Three major acquisitions in as many months in this space confirm it is). guest author.

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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

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According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product. You have finally found a cofounder that can take care of the startup. Acquisition.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

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The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. Singapore ) where if you become No.1 Indonesia from day one.

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