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More Coders. More Diversity.

Feld Thoughts

To address this, Heather Terenzio, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Techtonic Group, developed Techtonic Academy , an innovative solution in the form of Colorado’s first federally recognized by the Department of Labor technology apprenticeship. The post More Coders. The benefits are obvious. More Diversity.

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

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jason Cartwright , the founder of Potato , a 65-person Web development agency headquartered in London. 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.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

We either had to triple down and raise another fund (with which you have fees to pay for offices & salaries) or move to a different model. We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. We decided on the latter. See point one!

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

femgineer.com

Femgineer Coder. If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Sweat equity or salary?

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The most important person on the startup team

Berkonomics

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO.

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How To Get Hired At A Startup Without Experience

YoungUpstarts

Look out if they have received funding: Seed funding – means they are just starting out = less people in the company = higher likelihood of working closely with the founder. Be a founder of something. Don’t ask for the salary until you have gotten an offer, negotiate later. Side note: startup not as stable. b) Worked in one.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.