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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Introducing bureaucracy into this environment is almost guaranteed to block you from doing what you’re really supposed to be doing, which is pivoting in search of your scalable business model. A close mapping between your software architecture and your team architecture will be a big help here.

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Transcript of How to Successfully Run a Business as a WordPress Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

The real power in WordPress came when they released the plug-in architecture, which basically allowed other developers to write little pieces of software that extends the functionality of WordPress. John Jantsch: Is that Ruby? Troy Dean: No, it’s not Ruby. They call them plug-ins. Is that something that you are following?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Disclaimer: my company creates websites, iPhone/iPad apps and other software, and we provide requirements gathering/business analysis services to all of our clients, for free.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.