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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. The first part is the hardest part: hunting for a programmer. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

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Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development.