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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

And I believe that strength of the Y Combinator movement in America has been exactly this: take incredibly talented technologist who have a passion for an idea, let them launch it and let’s see what they produce and what the market reaction to this product will be. I had been part of large, multidisciplinary teams.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!

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“When there is pain in America, we see more volume.” Crisis Text Line, Tech & Trump.

Hunter Walker

Lots of people talk about founders—and founding tech teams (or, more likely, individuals) don’t get the love they deserve. Now our dev team is ~12 plus product and a data team of 4. (We’re We’re looking for additional senior backend devs, fyi.) When there is pain in America, we see more volume.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Read some fun reviews of this site. Excellent advice, although I don’t see 3-4 being a problem with the “right group&#.

Cofounder 101
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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