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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 6 I havent done a ton of hiring (only a little) and have found the freelancing sites to be a poor source for quality work. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Pat Sheridan (2010-06-20) # Thank you!

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. High Quality, and open sourced!