The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. Motivating Them Engineers are motivated by a variety of things.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 26, 2014

A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. Or a hiring manager may run a stack of resumes through some candidate eval software which pulls all sorts of data from github, stack overlflow, etc in order to try and verify that an individual has at least been publicly active in an area.

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API Software Review Ruby Software Engineering 104

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

They hired someone else to wash the dishes and clean the house. I was able to hire a friend to work about ten hours a week over the course of a month to research outlets, draft cover letters, and send out review copies. For my second novel, I hired someone to research Amazon’s top reviewers for me. Guess what?

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

or "All the most successful startups were founded by engineers." It doesn't matter if a year later you're not in code day-to-day and you've hired someone better than you to take over lead development, because you've earned your street cred. Now if you happen to have a friend who knows Ruby on Rails then I'd begin there as I did.

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Programming Ruby Cofounder Algorithm 78

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Once we’ve invested in a company, I find it easiest to talk about culture in terms of hiring because it’s (a) often the most important post-financing activity and (b) it’s an immediate use case with real tangible decisions. One which will make the successive hires and functioning of the team easier. Me : Got it.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your developer knows ruby-on-rails but doesn’t care about the application you are creating, then there is no guarantee that their work will be as precise or consistent as you need – or that they will go the extra mile. Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Find your forward and your point guard.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Those companies ask me where those folks hang out, where to find them, where to hire them away from, and what to do to get them to join their company.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Beautiful space in the South Boston Innovation District. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Places to Hang.

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Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Becoming the CTO vs VP of engineering? VP of engineering is a managing role. Putting together the team The ideal size for an engineering team is 6-8 people, bigger teams have difficulties maintaining the right amount of communication. Tiger Ruby people on Twitter » 5 Responses Subscribe to comments with RSS.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In fact, you will likely need to hire new consultants when you get there. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. One major caveat is Google App Engine , which is not compatible with all technologies. Java, PHP, Python, Ruby? MVC vs. REST?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 18, 2014

What''s easier to hire for in NYC? if hiring is a function of the top of the funnel--the number of leads you get, you have to imagine that at least finding larger pockets of those people is helpful to the process. There are two meetups of Ruby devs that total over 3,000 people in NYC. Developers or salespeople? Well, let''s see.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. are built on Drupal.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. The Ruby community in Kuala Lumpur is fairly small.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If they hire an accountant to help prepare and file their taxes that may cost around $500. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. You now have an hourly rate range to work with.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

The training is part of the Lone Star Ruby Conference at the Norris Conference Center, which continues on Friday and Saturday, and features speakers Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub and Blaze Mizerany of Sinatra. They will cover funding, marketing, and how to hire salespeople and business experts when the time is right.

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Hosting Ruby Incubator Austin 63

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It’s actually pretty hard to find a good start-up job if you have no real engineering or user acquisition / product management skills. Hire a Programmer The Hope: You’ll use the programmer to build a prototype that will get you traction and experience. I recommend you start by reading this post on how to hire a programmer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I started out as a consultant, where I would literally be under the hood tuning the engine and fixing the things for the clients. John Jantsch: Is that Ruby? Troy Dean: No, it’s not Ruby. That’s why they’re hiring us as consultants to solve their problem. I keep them accountable.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Don’t try to reverse engineer your resume to try and figure out who would hire you. Pick up a ruby book and learn some code. If you’re willing to wake up, unplug, and explore the idea that you don’t have to work for PWC or go to law school if you’re not ridiculously psyched about it, start now. Show up for a startup event.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed.

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chrischandler.name

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

All the engineers I trust to execute a project swiftly, professionally and with quality, especially under startup conditions, will not touch an upfront equity deal with a 10-foot pole. A common trait among these engineers is an understanding of their own entrepreneurial value. back to the top.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon's hiring strategy is one perfect example of innovation. Google was initially meant to be a search engine and today the company has ventured into wearable technology, renewable energy, mobile phones, and other web applications. It’s very admirable. Thanks to Edward Flower, Hollington Doors Ltd ! #4- Photo Credit: Adam Garcia.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 6, 2010

During the following week, I received many emails from the directories asking me to confirm my email address so I do not doubt that they actually did the job (Although many directories were suspiciously running with the same engine and some were administrated by the same person) How much traffic did I get since? 3 visitors.

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Ruby Australia Widget SEO 28

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Don’t try to reverse engineer your resume to try and figure out who would hire you. Pick up a ruby book and learn some code. Show up for a startup event. Join communities of innovators. Start blogging about what you *are* excited about. Follow awesome startup people on Twitter. No kung fu skills? Learn them!

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. Ruby on Rails? By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] By ?????????????

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Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. Ruby on Rails? By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] By ?????????????

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My father was a good High School student and was accepted for admission at the Brooklyn Polytechnic University , where he studied electrical engineering and paid his way by going ROTC (i.e., Indeed, this is why many CEO's and other business leaders prefer hiring hungry, working-class guys over the wealthy Ivy-leaguers.

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Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

C or C++ (search engines mostly, some backends). In addition, a large number of new apps are written in Ruby on Rails. If you need to hire, better people will be available to work on Rails. It’s easy to hire for, and easier to make fast. PHP (most high-volume apps). Perl (legacy high-volume apps). It’s not just slower.

PHP 45

PHP Web Java HTML 45

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Just hired Yahoo’s VP Media Sales. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Talk to Matt Malatesta.

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Boston Community CTO Hire Cofounder 72

Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

C or C++ (search engines mostly, some backends). In addition, a large number of new apps are written in Ruby on Rails. If you need to hire, better people will be available to work on Rails. It’s easy to hire for, and easier to make fast. PHP (most high-volume apps). Perl (legacy high-volume apps).

PHP 40

PHP Web Java HTML 40

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

How Airbnb Manages Not To Manage Engineers | ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1kDg8nG. 2014 Marketing Hiring Trends and Salary Guide – crowdspring.co/1ig97Dw. PHP vs Ruby vs Python: Three Programming Languages in a Nutshell | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1nJ16yT. – crowdspring.co/1pM8HcT. 1l8D3pz.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ruby on Rails doesnt scale? 37signals repopularised Ruby this way, and last.fm These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. PHP is insecure? have been beavering away with Haskell.

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