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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. Your potential customer base grows as tools become simpler and easier to use, even non-coders can build a professional website with minimal effort. Viktor Marohni? Does that apply in software world?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. So, please take this in the spirit intended.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. So, please take this in the spirit intended.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Glad you asked. Ok, nobody has asked this question yet.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

It is not surprising that this attitude provides a poor framework for hiring decisions. If you are the founder or "chief geek" in your small ISV, take a careful, honest, and objective look at yourself. It really is true that the best coders are gifted with an aptitude. Is this candidate one of those "10X coders"?

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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Transcript of How to Successfully Run a Business as a WordPress Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. Welcome to another episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Troy Dean. Troy Dean: Hi, John.