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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. The results.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.