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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

Im the founder of Buffer. The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Additionally, the transition phase between the two is probably one of the hardest things I’ve experienced as a startup founder. Joel Gascoigne.

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

www.quora.com

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Rockstar v.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET The very last comment takes the cake, however, and is a fitting close.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. This is great info.