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Web Success = Populate & Promote

Start Up Blog

It involved some people looking for coders to make a copy of my web business and livelihood www.rentoid.com. What was interesting was the lack decorum shown in the coder recruiting process where the person said – build me a replica of this website. I recently saw a job posted on a web developer recruiting website.

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HIRE for talent. RENT for experience.

Berkonomics

He hires for creative ability, people who can be the architects as opposed to the simple coders of routines. He divides the tasks so that no subcontractor has all the core knowledge in house as a protection against theft of intellectual property. The punchline. Creativity. There are obvious advantages to this. .

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How To Optimize Your Business Expenses

YoungUpstarts

You also have to account for difficulties around intellectual property transfers and other similar deals, as it’s not rare to hear horror stories of companies that get put in a really compromising position by an overseas “partner”. Communication is a big one, especially when it involves people in a completely different time zone.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)

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Hire for talent. Rent for experience.

Berkonomics

He hires for creative ability, people who can be the architects as opposed to the simple coders of routines. He divides the tasks so that no subcontractor has all of the core knowledge in house as a protection against theft of intellectual property. And he concentrates on the management of creativity, the core of his business.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Also, many software developers you meet are pure coders at heart, preferring to work from a well-defined scope and an established specification, and lacking the crucial CTO talent of transforming a project from pure vision into engineering process.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

Failing to protect Intellectual Property Coders handle one of your company’s most valuable assets: the code. This will give your remote manager an opportunity to interact with other members of your local team. Travel can be a burden, but in some cases your remote manager may see these trips as an added benefit.