The Next Web

MARCH 9, 2014

Kiran was one of our toughest hires. The founder was super confident in her product, super confident in her team but had some uncertainties about how she was going to acquire users and didn’t really know how big her market was, both of which were problems she said she would address. We knew he had options. He’s got a Ph.D.

Technical Review 165

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Eric has talked often about recognizing a startup as an organization designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). in ten years?

Lean 165

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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.

Miami 48

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

You can edit your profile to make it impeccable and strike a direct conversation with the hiring manager. It is invaluable as it shows your hiring manager your way of thinking. If you have no idea on what to do, analyse their competitors and use the products from both sides. d) Related side products. Post-interview.

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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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

I was comfortable with my stance on outsourcing, comfortable enough to recommend it and promote products, and profit from the affiliate commissions, from people who use the catch-call of $2-per-hour labor and the phrase – “ they do the work, you get the money “ I’ve begun the process of outsourcing to the Philippines.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Tell us about your products and services. Our products report a student engagement rate of 95 percent among course materials and a total reduction in DFWI (D, Fail, Withdraw, Incomplete) rates. Nonetheless, if you don’t trust the people hired to work in your business, don’t hire them. How do you help clients?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

You can use chatbots to make appropriate and better-purchasing decisions in sourcing products. The chatbot will offer recommendations depending on multiple factors, such as the information acquired during the chat, suppliers, items, current agreements, purchase history, product selection, and many other parameters in real-time.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

My personal policy is to get the idea going, make it sustainable, hire passionate and experienced managers to take my place, then move on to the next challenge. Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.

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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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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

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. So we get attached to our team and product, and its hard to forsake that for another opportunity that we’re unsure of. When to start recruiting?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

This condition makes it much easier for teams to innovate, experiment, and achieve sustained productivity. And, of course, the code rarely performs in production the way it does in the testing or staging environment, which leads to a series of hot-fixes immediately following each release.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 11, 2012

Even if you're a star coder, as your business grows there will come a moment when you're going to need IT help on a full-time basis. But how do you know when that moment comes - when is the right time to stop outsourcing your tech support needs and actually hire an in-house IT person? who has talked me through many an IT crisis.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Instead of simply waiting for a technical co-founder to build a product (by which point they will likely become frustrated and strike out on their own), you can do a lot of other work in preparation for an early product launch or preview. Collate this research and use the information to guide your product planning.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Reply Delete Anonymous Aug 15, 2010 05:24 PM I sorta agree.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We look for a willingness to grow and learn in each candidate we hire. 13- A name that indicates our products. Our name indicates to customers how quick and easy it is to get started using our products. Our company name comes from our business philosophy and practice. Thanks to Simon Bernath, Furnace Prices ! #13-

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

If I buy a product from overseas in China, I’m having faith the shipper will operate on good faith but scared of being ripped off, that’s what make me human. Or a retail store can have an AI that hire human temp works from an AI human recruiter to perform instructed tasks during the holiday season. Code is Law Garbage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Is it the quickest and easiest tool to get a minimum model product out the door and get some kind of product market elevation. WordPress just happens to be at the core of those solutions, but they are looking to add as much value to that business owner as possible rather than just being a coder for hire.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

Whether you’re running a product or a service-based business, make sure that you are solving a real business problem. Hire the best people you can possibly find and treat them like people, not like interchangeable resources. By Josh Golden, CEO of Table XI. 5 things every entrepreneur should know: 1. We like that.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

MicroISVs are a fantastic way to create recurring income that weathers tough economic times, especially if you have a niche product and you’re ruthless about automating everything. And the very cool thing about being funded is that means they are hiring. and current so that employers find you a desirable hire.

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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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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If you hire Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel… 2. When you bring a solution(s) along with the problem, in addition to demonstrateing empathy, you've gifted your boss some starting points for a productive conversation. If you have it, we are hiring!). They tell a coder how to write advanced code.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

2) Making high-quality products available to the public. Products that have in the bottle what they say on the outside with 3rd party testing to prove it. My gifts lie in film and television production, so honoring Him through faith-based movies and television shows is the best way I know to reflect His glory in business.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Product 2. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. 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.

Cofounder 47

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben Congleton (03:41): Coder. And it was basically a completely free product for a year before we had any monetization scheme. Like I would say the things that I care about are product and solving problems. And when we got to the point where we could hire our first employee, like that was pretty exciting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. And while its true that metrics sometimes can lead to a better product, in my experience just as often they had led to no insight whatsoever, like fancy reports that nobody reads or after-the-fact rationalizations (with graphs!) Well, lack of usage, really.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

Technical Review 84

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

If your objective is to build a winner-take-all marketplace over a very long term, you want to build a platform that has the least amount of friction (both product and pricing). At the same time, there were several larger players in the market such as Freelancer and Rent-a-coder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. Like we, you know, I did conferences, I had a podcast, I did the whole like bunches of courses, ebook, like info product, kind of Emporium there. And it was fun.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

Keywords need to be specific enough to what each page, product, service, or article is about, but they also need to be weighed carefully against the competition. Enterprises can afford to hire in-house designers and coders to take care of this for them. Keywording. For small businesses, keywording is a whole different story.

SEO 56

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Heres the working definition Ive started using: A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. A: have them deploy code to production on their first day as an employee. How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have?

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