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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. First, it’s true that “most software engineers aren’t business people.”

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. Insightful post, as always Dave (2010-06-19) # Fortuitous that I should read your article now as its given me some great pointers and refreshers on things I (should) already know. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea.