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. When to start recruiting? Sweat equity or salary?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

Have you thought about joining a startup, but have no idea what you could possibly offer? Perhaps you are looking forward to graduation and want to pick some skills that will help you work for a startup when you leave school. Perhaps it is time to look into Startup School. Startups are not easy. Startups are businesses.

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Diego Basch

APRIL 28, 2012

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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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone. Gust News David Rose Gust investors replicate startups' .” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I'd put off the assignment to the last minute and focus my time and energy on areas I did well in: other subjects in school and founding a successful startup during my sophomore year of college. Whenever you're hanging around other startup people, "you should learn to program" is thrown around like it's the antidote to all your problems.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors. Inspired again, I thought I’d augment their mentor guidance a bit with some things that I’ve learned from observing PIE startups and mentors over the past year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google App engine doesn’t support Ruby on Rails, and many game developers have to start from scratch because there aren’t many frameworks to easily develop in HTML5 format that’s friendly to mobile browsers (i.e. Israeli startup Mominis is one of them, but the usability is pretty poor and it’s in.NET).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Gifford Pinchot used to say “early learning beats better planning”, and in some ways, this is the entire mantra of the startup movement. Tech startups succeed so often because they excel at doing and learning from their doing, while big corporations excel at planning. Purpose: Increase kung fu and avoid procrastination.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Online Resources and Newsletters: Bostinno : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe.

Boston 71

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. Is It Sticky?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

If you’ve already got someone that optimized for making the most annual salary, joining a startup might be a difficult sell. And yes, I’ve heard of the NYCEDC’s initiative to develop a new engineering and applied sciences campus. Create a model for learning that is both effective and economically efficient.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? The Ruby community in Kuala Lumpur is fairly small. Related Posts Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Culture creation is not easy.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Bostinnovation : Great coverage of local startup happenings with a growing network of local writers. HBS Startup Tribe. MassChallenge - Startup competition and accelerator.

Boston 56

Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Code reviews 101 Code reviews are part of the daily workflow of most engineers, and the team I work on is no exception. Code Reviews: What I Look For was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Why do I say that? There’s probably much more.

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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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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The Devver Blog A Boulder startup improving the way developers work. Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. Becoming the CTO vs VP of engineering?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. I'm an engineer. When people have the space to make their own decisions, they take ownership and drive innovation.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

The So Cal engineering gap? from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. Also lot’s of fake, wanna be CTOs here. (So

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Some startup CEOs prioritize it and build theirs with the same attention they give to product. Example conversation, which works whether the CEO is really interested in defining culture proactively or comes to the discussion with skepticism: Me : So you want to hire two engineers and a designer, right? What skills are you focused on?

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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. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup. in security , startups. Many startups use Ruby on Rails. Other startups don’t but, like the Rails community, may one day find themselves asking What Do We Do When Apocalyptically Bad Things Happen On Our Framework of Choice? Posted on January 31, 2013.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

You're afraid of startups. As my friend once said, “I never hugged a co-worker until I worked at a startup.” This city is the thriving New York startup community, and if you’re willing to unplug from the Matrix—the cattle driving process of big corporate recruiting—you can join in. Show up for a startup event. Learn them!

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 18, 2014

There are two meetups of Ruby devs that total over 3,000 people in NYC. It feels like the revenue engines of NYC are pretty under the radar compared to the teams that write the code. Is it me, or are the top CTOs in NYC much more of a startup household name than the folks at the top of the sales organizations? Well, let''s see.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 14, 2013

This morning everyone has been retweeting Slava Akhmechet’s 57 Startup Lessons. Being good at engineering has nothing to do with being good at product management. On the other hand, your competitors can say their software is for Python programmers, so saying yours is for Ruby programmers is good marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2011

Not surprising, then, the area has a sizable "creative class" as well as a tech-inspired community that drives several events, Ignites, and unconferences like BarCamp Nashville , PodCamp Nashville , and Nashville Startup Weekend. Incubating and Training for Startups and Small Businesses.

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www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Engine Yard Adds JRuby, Heroku Adds Python and Django. aws , git , google analytics , heroku , ruby on rails. ReadWriteWeb | Startups | Small Business | Enterprise | Cloud Computing | Developers | Mobile. Be One of the First to Try This New Sentiment Analysis Tool From Proliphiq. « Prior Post. and tagged with. Subscribe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. I want to get an idea of how startup guys think. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Thats just me, though. Dont know yet.

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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. Tags: Events Capital Factory Lone Star Ruby Conference.

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The Next Web

JULY 12, 2012

That’s why, when I was given the opportunity to speak to an entrepreneur and startup founder about this subject, I immediately jumped on board. Jeremy Kagan is the founder & CEO of Pricing Engine. Pricing Engine along with the guys from GinzaMetrics , nowSpots , OwnLocal and Sailthru , started Local Innovation Labs.

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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. They understand not only the value of their abilities, but that they could just as easily band together and make their own startup.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people ( here and here ). Being good at engineering has nothing to do with being good at product management. Do everything you can not to attach your self esteem to your startup (you’ll fail, but try anyway). Product sense is everything.

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