A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

But this also produces a natural weakness , and when I look at what made me a successful entrepreneur — not just a great coder — it’s that I acknowledged and overcame that weakness. The weakness is your love of creation. You love to write clean, tested, scalable, extensible, beautiful code.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

It could be too costly for businesses to hire employees and attach funding to sustain them with basic things. Fortunately, there is plenty of information for developers, coders, and programmers, allowing you to easily implement chatbots. Aside from that, it’s a tough challenge to maintain and supervise many employees.

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The Next Web

MARCH 30, 2013

Hiring developers for your tech company undoubtedly involves making some of the most important decisions you’ll reach for your organisation. 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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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Ill start with four general guidelines for how to proceed with a hiring decision.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Divide the hiring decision into two boxes. This insight comes from a fellow CEO who explains that he leverages his financial resources for growth by dividing his hiring decision into these two boxes. He hires for creative ability, people who can be the architects as opposed to the simple coders of routines.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

Hire the best people you can possibly find and treat them like people, not like interchangeable resources. Our developers are some of the best coders out there, but they’re also film buffs, foodies, musicians, gamers, and marathon runners. At Table XI we employ the whole person. We like that.

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The Next Web

MAY 16, 2017

Hiring interdisciplinary coders who could help keep kids really engaged on their self-made computers. Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company. Kano’s winning metric? This is his story, use it to your advantage.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. They are anyone who runs his/her own business.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2017

Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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The Next Web

MARCH 9, 2014

Kiran was one of our toughest hires. in physics and he’s a gifted coder, but he never seems to mind taking the time to explain it to me in a way that I can understand. He’s one of those rare types that communicates well, has solid management skills, is fluent technically, and was a perfect startup culture fit. We knew he had options.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there.

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Berkonomics

JULY 14, 2016

This insight comes from a fellow CEO who explains that he leverages his financial resources for growth by dividing his hiring decision into these two boxes. He believes that he or his managers can teach processes, taking advantage of the new hire’s fresh look and open mind.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

There’s many ways to learn but for most developers and coders it’s hard to learn any other way then by doing. That means that if you enroll in one of our courses, we want to make sure that you receive a tangible benefit (make more money, get a promotion, get hired, save in your training costs, etc) in the shortest amount of time.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2018

I’ve had to hire a wide variety of services and contractors to help with different aspects of my business, and I recommend you consider the same when you require special expertise in critical areas. When you DIY it, you risk doing something wrong, or having to hire someone to fix it, which means you now wasted both time and money.

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Diego Basch

APRIL 28, 2012

The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. This is because hiring the wrong person could be extremely damaging to a company. Not hiring anyone is also extremely damaging. Join the Triple Nine Society for example and you’ll meet some of them (there are great coders there too).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

If, for example, you are a phenomenal coder, that’s great, but that doesn’t mean you can run a business of your own. You can either hire those with more expertise in those areas or simply outsource until your business is big enough to hire staff of its own. Cover all the bases.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2017

" Companies of all sizes and across a wide variety of industries hire part-time remote workers. The jobs these companies are hiring for range in experience from entry-level through senior-level management and have varied educational requirements.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. There’s definitely a learning curve, but for anywhere between $7-$25 an hour for experienced coders, it’s hard to deny.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. Really, it''s a place to learn and connect with other entrepreneurs. Glad you asked.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

On the matter of founders, we agreed that having a sole founder (and then hiring the really smart people) creates a more stable environment than a 50/50 partnership. Also, remember that the journey is the reward. It’s important to learn from your experiences and apply these lessons you learn to the future. What made you decide to be an angel?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2020

It makes for a smoother process for seeking outside hires by providing a model for the job specification to be written. We leaders are not invincible. Other important gains from doing this.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

It’s pointless to learn cross platform app development from scratch when you can hire someone. Go the extra mile to find the coder who stays up all night and the graphic designer who spends their free time in museums. The second key in starting a start up is picking your team. The answer will depend on your idea and your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. My prognosis?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

They needed a way to use their website to its full potential, but they either didn’t have time or money to hire a marketer. So, I came up with an idea of using social proof to help business owners do marketing, without hiring a marketer. Since I’m not a coder by profession, building a website is out of the question.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find the answers below by Cody Riddar that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view. You, a creative guy?

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Just last week, start-up supremo Naval Ravikant of AngelList wrote how the “oversupply” of founders starting companies is making it harder to hire for the average startup. An increase in tech talent wouldn’t be a bad thing when hiring for established companies either, but we need minds to be both technical and entrepreneurial.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

I haven’t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but there’s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They are smart, talented, easy to find and hire and they work for very reasonable pay. Excellent offshore developers are sometimes easy to come by, but hiring good managers is never easy and not nearly as cheap. To avoid this mistake: Hire a local manager for your offshore team. Why not put them to work for you?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. Angel Investor Business Development Hiring Jobs PHP SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora venture Android Drupal early stage first revenue leadership scalability Silicon Valley software Software Development tom nora'

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

We’re currently running tests to find a good graphics person, then next up will be a coder, a VA and so on until I have a solid team of talented people, all of whom will cost under $1600 a month total to employ full time. I can’t even hire ONE Australian full time on that kind of money, let alone an entire team.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 1, 2014

The glorious green grass of the work-from-home employee is a goal for many successful people (and not-so-successful people) and a great way to hire the best talent without having to pay to relocate them. It can be as simple as a nice dinner and a sit-down – all the way to hiring office space for a day and having a full team work there.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

The hiring manager who transmogrified my success as an entrepreneur as a liability to his company by telling me that I would have a hard time being told what to do by someone else, and then told me I’d love working with them because they have an Xbox, PS4 and ping pong table. Shockingly, I wasn’t hired by any of these men.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. You might as well hire an outsourced team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0 March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said. Thanks for sharing.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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