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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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. Bring your questions.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

They don’t need to be convinced that Lean Startup provides a compelling alternative to traditional product development, so we are not looking talks about the fact that you’ve had success with Lean Startup in an unexpected sector or in a part of the world outside San Francisco. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply?

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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. 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.

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5 ways to build company culture with a virtual team

The Next Web

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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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. Getting Hired. Will an marketer commit to promoting a OSS project?

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

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. Just like you’d go to the Mission in San Francisco to find a hipster, you need to identify where these people are hanging out both online and offline. San Francisco, CA.