crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2011

NEW @crowdSPRING Small Biz Newsletter: social media disaster, employee training, market size - [link]. Small businesses err when cutting employee benefits – this impacts employee loyalty - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

If Marc Andreesen is right (and I happen to believe he is) then talented software developers will soon be the most sought after type of employee for just about any company, whether that company’s main business is building software or not. Embrace open source. Open source developers aren’t lazy thieves.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee – crowdspring.co/1s051td. 3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee – crowdspring.co/1s051td. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. They Make Terrible Employees – [link]. They Make Terrible Employees – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Business Plan vs Business Model – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Good short read dispelling productivity myths about employee performance – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. A brief history: 35 years of open source software – [link]. Fuck That Noise. Guess What?

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Google’s Secrets Of Innovation: Empowering Its Employees | Forbes – [link]. 8 Steps to Mastering Time Management | OPEN Forum – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. | by Daniel Burrus – [link].

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee. Check out my book Like this post?

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants. They tend to know the operations side of a software business well enough to be the one overseeing deploys, crafting the infrastructure plans, and monitoring the health of the product. It feels like tomorrows trouble to me but its something to keep in mind.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Another tip (whether outsourcing or developing in-house, make sure you follow the “2-man&# rule, which means that you should have at least 2 people familiar with your code which gives you insurance in case one goes away or moves on.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, theyre going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. Not business people, software engineers. Finding Employees.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Transformify delivers … Software as a Service: SaaS. First of all, let’s talk about what type of software does Transformify ( TFY) deliver? It is maintained by Facebook and a community of independent developers and companies.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

We're thinking of going open-source — it's free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. Your employee's time is not free. We do things open-source would never do. Bugs are a reality, and that's when open-source starts to become non-free in a hurry. Let's get specific.

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Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past, I have written about how important networking can be for your chances of finding a job as a software developer. This is especially true for developers looking for remote jobs since their options are much more limited (although growing). We also ask them to engage with those companies and their employees on Twitter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. Common vision. Insider knowledge.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Other possibilities include programming conferences, business networking events , programming forums, Q & A sites like StackOverflow , and open source project contributors. The UI is the 10% above the water.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. gl3nn chan Friday, October 10, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Perhaps a good way to think about this is that the sweat equity partner is a blend of angel investor and employee. The key here is motivation.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You wont need a site license to cover your entire team, but plan on supplementing Google Apps with copies of Office for key marketing and executive employees, as well as anyone who spends a lot of time working offline. When it comes to financial software, it makes sense to follow the leader. Project Management/Tracking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Impressive & generous benefits to families when a Google employee dies – [link]. Good look at how Facebook’s stock price impacts the company and its employees (beyond the obvious) – [link]. Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family – [link]. – [link].

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Conferences, Presentations & Meetings Expectnation – A conference program organizing software. Halogen Software – Halogen offers talent management and employee performance solutions.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. But yourenot allowed to ask prospective employees if they plan to have kids soon.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. 15 Chris on 11.19.08 16 Rob on 11.19.08

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. That changes the annual cost of your employee from $60,000 to $69,000 with an associated change in hourly cost: 20 WD/month, $36/hour. Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. What to do?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

But no-code software can come with the added cost of technical debt. Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). Risks vary based on whether you develop or purchase software. Integrations.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interesting article about teaching employees & Google’s approach – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Good of Netflix to open source its cloud failure testing tool, Chaos Monkey – [link]. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. This left very smart employees feeling very frustrated because their managers would interfere intermittently and at random moments. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

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