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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." 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.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Femgineer Coder. HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products. Remember people only have two hands!

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

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They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. 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.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. At IMVU, we would occasionally hire someone from a more traditional organization who had a hard time letting go of their “best practices&# and habits.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. None of it would have happened if we had plenty of cash, or were content to count our progress by traffic or product development milestones.

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

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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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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent).