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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

We’ll discuss the critical questions a CEO needs to answer to effectively capitalize on the remote labor market while avoiding the pitfalls most commonly encountered when people attempt to hire developers that are far from their company’s headquarters. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Look at the business and determine what's going to make sense from a development perspective in the short-term, longer-term. Do you really have control of the development? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. It was also in a group of about 15 people in law offices in Los Angeles. Irony, hey?).

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

ReadWriteStart

Hypemarks was a Los Angeles social sharing startup that after about a year of failing to gain traction and turn a profit, changed course, moved to San Francisco and became Tint , an embeddable social-feed service. One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. start-up world.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I also recognize that while I am the first technologist on the team, I will not by any means be the last and I'm hoping that subsequent hires will be people I consider brighter and more talented than myself. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. When will key hires come on?

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

When used long-term, Crunch Mode slows development and creates more bugs when compared with 40-hour weeks. In the aftermath of ea_spouse s post on LiveJournal, quality-of-life conversations in the game development business have taken on a new life and a new urgency. Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects.