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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects. Ask developers if they’ve been involved with a previous web startup and what their role was in the startup.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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

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Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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