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Technical SEO for Startups with Jacque Alec at Capconvert

Mucker Lab

As part of Mucker’s ongoing Growth Series Webinars, we recently invited Jacque Alec , the CEO of Capconvert , to go deep on the topic of technical SEO for startups. Before jumping in and optimizing for Google, it is vital to first understand the anatomy of SERP (Search Engine Results Page) features.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn.

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Top 9 Reasons to Choose Cloud App Development

The Startup Magazine

Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Google App Engine, and other well-established PaaS providers let you install your own cloud-based applications. Numerous service providers may support applications developed in different programming languages such as.NET, Java, Ruby, Python, and Node.js Ready-to-use SaaS solutions may be found. Free resources.

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There’s already a lot of great advice about hiring at little startups. ” Why startups should ALWAYS compromise when hiring by Dharmesh Shah — There are many attributes you’d like to see in a hire, but compromise is necessary; here’s how to do it. .” Or therapy. Write a crazy job description.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. For a startup especially, not taking risks means dying. Far from it.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

For most web startups, the initial launch of the product would likely have a contained number of users: you, the friends you forced to help you test, and possibly some beta testers. Let’s call that “startup scale.” The jump from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” will be significant, no matter what your initial choice is.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.