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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. Malaysia tried but there simply wasn’t enough liquidity, or institutional demand. By and large, a lot of it were macro challenges that Malaysia itself faced.

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

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Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x

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Startup Resources

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t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). on demand billing and fraud management. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Use Sendgrid! code spaces (svn).

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).