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

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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. Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0. However, I needed to actually build it! Startup Weekend. Workshops. -->. Recent Posts. New York, New York.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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At this stage, its perfectly fine, and actually preferable, to use a cheap coder to just get something out the door to test in the market. Spend the $70/year to register your domain and buy hosting. If they do not offer WordPress in the hosting package, keep looking. WordPress is the way to go.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. A person making a persistent loud complaint isn't a "troll," they're a person making a persistent, loud, complaint.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

An article he wrote for the Washington Post , published on March 28th, when America was still reeling from the exponential growth and the CDC was telling the public not to wear masks, was the first real call to arms for masks. So when Good Morning America were the first call and say, "Can you come on tomorrow morning?" And so that.