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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.

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

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Someone who can actually CSS/HTML/*script the design they just made. I don't think it's enough to have a business guy and a coder. Jason Tugman • Dec 14, 2010 Why make web design and UX separate?