Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Just change it.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation? What is Sweat Equity Worth? July 31, 2007 |.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development. Poor machine, screen, connection, chair.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? This answer. Please specify the necessary improvements.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. IT staffing, consulting and software development services.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were working on new features when we had enough free time. To some point that was true.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. Jono Bacon: So I think really, we’ve seen a real growth in communities in recent years and especially because technology has been growing so significantly. He’d spend all of his money that he raised on an hour’s worth of internet access.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. No phone system.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, was the 80s, and I was able to break out of it because I was very interested in mathematics, and to everyone's surprise, ended up winning the silver medal in the International Math Olympiads, which was one of the first time somebody from the Eastern part of Turkey had really participated and won a medal. EB : It is very simple.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? And while it's condescending it's tone may prove quite useful for non-engineers wanting to start internet businesses with no idea of what is required to do so, which it seems like a lot of people who'd ask this kind of question in this kind of forum, are. Rockstar v.

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