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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. How to Bootstrap Your Startup : Everything you need to start your business – how to take an idea on paper and bring it to life. Learn Ruby on Rails , an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language, with this ten step tutorial.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. Salesforce.com recently bought Heroku for $250m because the latter controlled fully-managed Ruby on Rails deployments. To hire key employees. I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

Each of those ten people have great ideas and passion for their ventures but they are lacking a technical cofounder or the money to hire a programmer. But in my limited experience, the tools that get used in your business tend to be the ones favored by the first hire or by the technical cofounder.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Betsy and I are on the road a good bit but more importantly, we’ve got great folks we’ve hired in each of these locations. You may not know this but when we first started, we bootstrapped the business by touring around the Southeast hosting kids coding camps. Plus, we’ll be growing into a couple of new markets soon. Nice growth!

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I learned Ruby on Rails. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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