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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Now storage is cheap, costing $0.05 ” And as impact goes, so does cost. No Problem!

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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Why You’d Be Insane To Skip College For Startup Dreams

ReadWriteStart

It’s not just about money, though that’s an easy reason to stay in school: Not graduating from college will cost you $500,000 over the course of your life. So Meyer feels that the opportunity cost of staying in school is way too high: The startup space has never been more vibrant or exciting than it is today.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As a child living in Hong Kong through SARS, he saw first hand the human toll a virus could inflict, and the immense economic cost of the emergency response. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Your consultant, in turn, will walk the fine line of giving you the answer you want to hear while raising the scope and cost of the project, possibly even creating milestones along the way, ensuring an ongoing, gainful relationship. The cost of adding too much “scalability” up front is a more complex product, harder to test and maintain.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. So it can be done. Advertising.