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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? In my experience, it’s naive to think you can just “get developers to build the product” although it does sometimes work. Was it a case of needing Homework?

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Now Adriana has an epiphany?:

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in. When you set out to write your functional spec, you need to follow a clear structure so that your developers understand what you are saying.

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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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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development. Certainly, knowing software development in general and web development specially cannot hurt in anyway.

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