Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Betsy and I are on the road a good bit but more importantly, we’ve got great folks we’ve hired in each of these locations. If you can get an 9 year old writing simple Ruby programs, launching websites, and generally understanding how technology can be used to solve problems, that’s a pretty exciting thing. Nice growth!

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In getting to know founders during their fundraising process we push to understand The Why because their motivation will be the first strands of the company’s DNA. CEO : Well for the engineer we want someone who has several years of Ruby experience and…… [fill in technical specs]. What skills are you focused on?

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. → Learn More. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. ” Let’s start with the basics.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. The next one is TechProm , organized by Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgent. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Ruby specialists.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

9- Doing what I do best, and hiring others to do the rest. I stay motivated by doing what I do best, and hiring others to do the rest! It’s easy for Founders to become unmotivated by all the problems they face on a daily basis. Thanks to Nina Dafe, The Far Above Rubies Collection ! #22- Photo Credit: Ande Lyons.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Each of those ten people have great ideas and passion for their ventures but they are lacking a technical cofounder or the money to hire a programmer. But in my limited experience, the tools that get used in your business tend to be the ones favored by the first hire or by the technical cofounder.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For hiring, Tim personally sits down with the key hires, and if it is research he does interviews with applicants as well. During a startup, you continually are hitting false summits, you think that if you could just get that contact, solve that roadblock, pass this milestone, or make this key hire then everything will fall into place.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

She is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists , a company she started back in 2003 and has seen double digit growth every year since it’s inception. Tell me how Ruby got started. Well, first, I actually never even thought about Ruby as an answering service from day one. Just go to Gusto.com/tape.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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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. Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Hire a programmer.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Sweat equity or salary?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Right before I got into the industry I was at a cocktail party in Palo Alto and spoke with James Currier , the founder of Tickle and a former VC for Battery Ventures. Should you build in Ruby, Java or.NET? Should you hire an extra developer now or a business development resource? They’re slow to hire new staff.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. Mpunda had struggled for 10 years working at a hotel, a brewery, and a ruby mine. Reuben Mpunda, Tanzania. After three years of scraping by, he borrowed half a million Tanzanian shillings (or $360) from the Akiba Commercial Bank.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. Learn to Develop an iPhone or iPad App in 4 Weeks. For example, check out this GE Skillshare school.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. John Jantsch: Is that Ruby? Troy Dean: No, it’s not Ruby. Welcome to another episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Some people make a living out of being virtual assistants and helping busy people with their everyday tasks (such as organizing a meeting, doing some online research, calling someone, etc…) Depending on the skill set and the country of origin, the cost of hiring a virtual assistant can be as low as 5 US$ an hour. I felt very frustrated.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 25, 2010

Also, hearing what challenges other founders face allows you to do some preventive work when possible. I find these events very educative and the structure that we use encourages deeper exchanges among the founders and the small aspect of the group lets us open up more easily.

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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. You don’t have to be a founder. Go make a list of 25 innovative companies you’d like to work at and have at it—reach out on LinkedIn to founders, their investors, people who work at the companies.

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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. You don’t have to be a founder. Go make a list of 25 innovative companies you’d like to work at and have at it—reach out on LinkedIn to founders, their investors, people who work at the companies.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. University Resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Thats just me, though. Im sort of surprised you have no comments.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This post is by Scott Edward Walker , the firm's founder and CEO. It is here where my father began his 15-year journey from entry-level engineer at Western Union to founder and CEO of Walker Telecommunications Corporation , a NASDAQ-listed public company. If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker.

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Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

In addition, a large number of new apps are written in Ruby on Rails. For most web apps, however, and for almost any startup with technical founders, Java is a poor choice. 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).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

1) How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes (4) Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks 4 Comments → Jarek S. permalink Hi! Could you elaborate a little bit on that “from niche keywords to minisites is a long path&# subject?

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Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

In addition, a large number of new apps are written in Ruby on Rails. For most web apps, however, and for almost any startup with technical founders, Java is a poor choice. 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.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I haven’t met founder Jason Fried but reading interviews and stories about him, he’s clearly the real deal. Not chickenfeed, but still not enough to get remaining founder Jason Fried to sell. Jason is “famous&# for saying he’d never hire someone who didn’t use a Mac.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I learned Ruby on Rails. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I learned Ruby on Rails. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

(Please ask any question you may have, I will update the article accordingly) Other articles you might like Wise Labs, the mission statement (0) The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it (0) Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3)

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Rockstar v.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. Ultimately, the project can founder on the “core incompetencies&# you both bring to the partnership. If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. You have two avenues open to you.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. Stage 2: The first hires. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Everyone is a generalist and works on a little bit of everything.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2012

To learn more about how your startup can find, hire and keep the top talent and quality workers it needs to succeed, download this free ReadWriteWeb Report: The Talent Wars: Today’s Toughest Startup Challenge.). But those are expected variables; a Ruby rock star expects those things. It’s Called an Employer Brand! Try the Techy Angels.

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