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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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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Additionally, the language you stick with will affect your options if you need to hire new team members. That said, it’s generally wiser to stick with freelancers when hiring. Remote developers are statistically more experienced and you can hire based on their proficiency instead of proximity to your office. Open Source Code.

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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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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

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. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers. They work on their own schedule and are often hard to manage. The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams.

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

The Next Web

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. “The 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

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Verified Data Will Prevent “Fake It Til You Make It”

Hunter Walker

A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. Or a hiring manager may run a stack of resumes through some candidate eval software which pulls all sorts of data from github, stack overlflow, etc in order to try and verify that an individual has at least been publicly active in an area.

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