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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

As he was learning from potential customers and providers he would ask, “What if we could have an app that allowed you to schedule low cost moves?” Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential. A founding web/mobile team without a coder past the initial stages of Customer Discovery is not a startup. Lessons Learned.

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Hail The March Of The Citizen Coder

YoungUpstarts

Can we afford to wait for the rise of these coders to attend the workforce? Therein lies the need for the citizen coder. Self-taught and digitally native, the citizen coder is a symbol of 21st century success and a ready-made solution to a yawning skills gap. There are plenty of precedents for this kind of platform approach.

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The Pros And Cons Of Digital Learning

YoungUpstarts

Many employees now believe that companies choose online learning methods as a way of cutting costs rather than as a smarter alternative to traditional classroom learning. Over the long term, the cost of learning online is considerably cheaper than a classroom-based environment for both students and employers.

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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….

Hunter Walker

.” What Happens to All the Stuff We Return [David Owen/New Yorker Magazine] – How online shopping and reverse logistics tilted a bunch of assumptions about returns (and costs of return policies) on their heads. as a person who can ship this, even without waiting for a magic coder person to help.

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UsIng a Web Design App to Launch Your Startup Website

The Startup Magazine

Nuances related to layout, graphics, device and browser compatibility, media handling and performance are time consuming to even the most proficient coders. You could outsource your SEO, but the Sparkle SEO integration tools help offset yet another marketing cost. Sparkle ad for its visual web design app.

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How to hack the recruitment process to find the best developers for your startup or agency

The Next Web

The right developer on the other hand can start you off on the correct footing, pivot any incorrect tech choices, network to pull in more skilled coders and motivate them to do their best work. Go to the coders. One of the most common causes of death among startups is people. Make your interview process unique to your culture.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

On average, as people age they resist adopting new technologies, only doing so slowly and where the benefits compellingly outweigh the time cost and inevitable frustrations. The following is an observation more purely from the perspective of the consumer of information technology. Continuous integration, continuous learning.