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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. The beauty of programming is that you take a concept and turn it into reality with just typing some stuff into the computer. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. The beauty of programming is that you take a concept and turn it into reality with just typing some stuff into the computer. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. For example, I have repeatedly taught PHP to complete novices in several companies, including people who had never before programmed at all. Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Tristan Kromer • Nov 12, 2010 doesn't bring any answer Julien Chabe • Nov 15, 2010 The creative guy should use Axure to build a HTML prototype himself. Ability to create wireframes , HTML mock-ups , other product artifacts that you use to flesh out ideas and test them.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. Bless you, chile!

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. [link] serrynaimo It’s exactly how it works! Partner up?