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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. It is often said that bootstrapping is cheap.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. It’s an *freaking open source*.net Thanks ez, whoever you are!

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. You may have existing code lying around from earlier projects, or be able to use open-source components or libraries to make your life easier. Every startup needs PR, but this is even more true of flips. Create Buzz.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

At this stage, its perfectly fine, and actually preferable, to use a cheap coder to just get something out the door to test in the market. Too many people leave their business decisions to coders and designers. Theres no sense in spending 5X what you have to when youre really just trying to get a proof of concept.