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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers.

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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. Hiring developers for your tech company undoubtedly involves making some of the most important decisions you’ll reach for your organisation. Go to the coders.

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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.’. From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. Viktor Marohni? The answer is yes.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

New Web Order. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Webmasterworld - A popular forum for web developers. 5th November 2010. #.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

mashable.com

There’s also a searchable service section with advice on logo design, website development and a service request board if you prefer that providers come to you. Techcofounder If you’re starting a company, chances are you either are a coder or need a coder. Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Both me and my co-founder, Abhishek, met in first year of collage (IIT-Bombay). Failing to find a coder whose vision aligned with ours, we ended up coding ActivityDeck website ourselves. I decided to fuse my writing and storytelling skills with my friend’s web and tech skills to form a digital marketing startup.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job.