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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. Most employers, due to fear of lawsuits, will only confirm employment data and give you positive feedback over the phone.

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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. Most employers, due to fear of lawsuits, will only confirm employment data and give you positive feedback over the phone.

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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. Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). At the heart of the matter is scarcity of resources. Resume length.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Larry didn’t practice any kind of textbook management, but he was an intense communicator and inspiring leader. Relational architecture (a collection of data organized as a set of formally described tables) in the first place—all new stuff, and technically compelling. Basically if you didn’t code or sell, you were semi-worthless.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. I guess I’m more targeting property management companies. So it’s property management software?

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

Code clean. Everyone is happier when the code we interact with is clean and consistant. Youll need to think about JavaScript architecture. How do you manage those dependancies? Think about CSS architecture. Do not forget the database and software design. Need a guide? Try SMACSS. Establish a style guide.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The Netflix cloud systems group recently created a Cloud Performance Team to focus on characterizing the performance of components such as Cassandra, and helping other teams make their code and AWS usage more efficient to reduce latency for customers and costs for Netflix. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer.

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