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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Tweet. --> It’s a big decision to make your first hire, because what you’re really deciding is whether you want to keep a lifestyle business or attempt to “cross the chasm” and maybe even get rich. There’s already a lot of great advice about hiring at little startups. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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Top 9 Reasons to Choose Cloud App Development

The Startup Magazine

One of the biggest issues for small firms is capital expenditures, particularly if your budget can only afford one thing: hiring a certified expert or purchasing strong equipment. The cloud allows you to host applications without having to spend any money up front, and you can use that money to hire professionals or purchase office supplies.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Here’s the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- As an entrepreneur, you are somewhere along a long hard, uphill climb. Staying motivated can be hard, but one thing as an entrepreneur that I try to do is talk to people a lot. 1- Celebrating the little wins. Photo Credit: Brian Rowe.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“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. Of course, if you’re hiring an agency, you’re probably looking at 1.5

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Why and When to Learn to Program

Spencer Fry

Here's why I finally learned to code: I've been a web entrepreneur since I was eleven years old — for over sixteen years now — and the majority of the time throughout those years when I came up with an idea, I had to find a technical person to implement and co-found the startup with me. Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial.

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Courting Content, Not Controversy

Startup Lessons Learned

Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. CES—the giant Consumer Electronics Show—was most noted for a booth in which four women were hired to appear in nothing but thongs, pasties and blue body paint.