Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Not to mention $200,000 in staff time and hard costs. Generously, it might cost you $20,000. In other words, you could test ten book ideas for the cost of publishing one. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Really, it''s a place to learn and connect with other entrepreneurs. Glad you asked.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2018

I’ve had to hire a wide variety of services and contractors to help with different aspects of my business, and I recommend you consider the same when you require special expertise in critical areas. When you DIY it, you risk doing something wrong, or having to hire someone to fix it, which means you now wasted both time and money.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

You can edit your profile to make it impeccable and strike a direct conversation with the hiring manager. It is invaluable as it shows your hiring manager your way of thinking. The best low cost option you can start with is a blog or get into media – be it YouTube videos, podcasts, graphics or written posts.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

in hosting costs for an app with nearly a million registered users that serves several million requests a month. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? Derek Sivers: How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen. In short, talent.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

We’re currently running tests to find a good graphics person, then next up will be a coder, a VA and so on until I have a solid team of talented people, all of whom will cost under $1600 a month total to employ full time. I can’t even hire ONE Australian full time on that kind of money, let alone an entire team.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Rowe’s company Perceivant replaces traditional textbooks with cost-effective and interactive learning experiences for mobile and web applications to keep students more engaged in general curriculum courses that carry the highest fail rates. Nonetheless, if you don’t trust the people hired to work in your business, don’t hire them.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Cuts Costs For Your Business. It could be too costly for businesses to hire employees and attach funding to sustain them with basic things. It could be too costly for businesses to hire employees and attach funding to sustain them with basic things. Operational Support. Identify AI-based Chatbot Opportunities.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

My personal policy is to get the idea going, make it sustainable, hire passionate and experienced managers to take my place, then move on to the next challenge. Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.”

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It costs less than $100 per year to run a website, and—unlike the print publishing era—no reputable editor or printing costs stand in the way of immediate, uncensored, worldwide distribution. The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I once even lectured my fresh graduate coder to stop printing out those PDFs I emailed him. I run an elearning site that provides online business courses for the fraction of the cost of the offline counterpart. Your office rent is probably the most expensive monthly office costs. Hire interns. Enroll in online courses.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. I still dont have a technical co-founder and at this point - I dont need one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. If the cost of each failure is dirt cheap, then you can afford to make a lot more failures in the course of learning.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We look for a willingness to grow and learn in each candidate we hire. High costs and frustration often go hand-in-hand with building outdoor kitchens from scratch, which can deter people from even looking into purchasing them. Our company name comes from our business philosophy and practice. 23-My daughter suggested.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

It cost billions, cost years and distract from the core mission trying to create your own code ecosystem. Or a retail store can have an AI that hire human temp works from an AI human recruiter to perform instructed tasks during the holiday season.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

So typically speaking, the fundamental difference between a WordPress consultant and a WordPress developer that you can hire, and that work is, our guys will walk into a small business and start asking lots of questions, rather than just taking a brief and saying, “Okay, this is the functionality you need. I’ll scope it out.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop. A lot of contract work is out there looking for mid- to low-cost providers. And the very cool thing about being funded is that means they are hiring. and current so that employers find you a desirable hire. at 11:31 am [.]

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If you hire Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel… 2. If you have it, we are hiring!). If you hire Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, don't hold his hand while he is painting. People in your team will surpass your technical skills (in fact if you are a good boss, you’ll hire people like that).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. They are anyone who runs his/her own business.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find the answers below by Cody Riddar that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view. You, a creative guy?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

A sustainable platform or marketplace is one where the value of being in the network clearly outshines the transactional costs charged for being in the network. At the same time, there were several larger players in the market such as Freelancer and Rent-a-coder. The rest is history.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

They needed a way to use their website to its full potential, but they either didn’t have time or money to hire a marketer. So, I came up with an idea of using social proof to help business owners do marketing, without hiring a marketer. Since I’m not a coder by profession, building a website is out of the question.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. you can hire for those.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben Congleton (03:41): Coder. You know, I, I think when we got to the point where we could hire our first employee was a pretty big milestone cuz OAR was o it was kind of a weird company. And when we got to the point where we could hire our first employee, like that was pretty exciting. We raised a total of $85,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Most of all, these arguments stemmed from a simple misconception: that the code we had written was an asset, and that it would cost us to throw it away. But code written that doesnt help the company succeed is a sunk cost. This has been the most appropriate thing I could have ever read right now. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They are smart, talented, easy to find and hire and they work for very reasonable pay. Excellent offshore developers are sometimes easy to come by, but hiring good managers is never easy and not nearly as cheap. To avoid this mistake: Hire a local manager for your offshore team. Why not put them to work for you?

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

I haven’t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but there’s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life. I definitely heard that response when I applied algorithmic thinking to finding a spouse.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

The hiring manager who transmogrified my success as an entrepreneur as a liability to his company by telling me that I would have a hard time being told what to do by someone else, and then told me I’d love working with them because they have an Xbox, PS4 and ping pong table. Shockingly, I wasn’t hired by any of these men.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. The risk to the entrepreneur is that he loses several tens of millions of dollars in opportunity cost.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

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? Youll estimate time and cost better. Hire one from each. The requirements are as follows.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. My prognosis?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

When most people think of outsourcing, they envision coders in Southeast Asia working into the wee hours of (our) night. Pros: Low cost is the primary reason most companies outsource overseas. Another advantage: If you do end up hiring full-time in the future, good contractors often turn into good employees.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Later you would look to enhance that with key hires in tech, design, sales and operations. They are many more examples.

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