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Cyber Security At The Start

YoungUpstarts

Do we have offshore developers? Implement identity and asset management tools within the organization to monitor anomalies around users. Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions. Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning. Do we have store fronts?

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

In building my company – Dropmysite / Dropmyemail – I found that managing outsourcing was an ever-evolving combination of local and remote capabilities that stays flexible enough to meet changing conditions. As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Talk about waste.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

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. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Getting Hired. Big Companies. Captain Recruiter. cover letters.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers. I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture. Help identify key technologist and product hires to transition in-house (week 13 onward, however this can take 1 year).

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

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.