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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

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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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

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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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. Drupal and PHP were tools I’ve acknowledged for a decade but never studied much. What is Drupal?

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

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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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. I still dont have a technical co-founder and at this point - I dont need one.

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

Duct Tape Marketing

WordPress is an open source project that was started by Matt Mullenweg leaving a comment on a blog. And that’s really the spirit of WordPress is this open source collaboration by people volunteering their time. That’s why they’re hiring us as consultants to solve their problem.