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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Buy a Mac and get Apple’s iOS development SDK.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring).

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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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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?".

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

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