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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. Airbnb knew their first employee would be critical to their culture, so to find their first engineer they conducted hundreds of interviews over four to six months. How to Get Started.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers.