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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

That was a $19k salary increase from my previous job as a business analyst, just less than five months ago. Fast forward about a year and a half later, and my total income is now more than 3X my business analyst salary working as a software engineer. The first class was about 30–40 people, ranging in age from 10–65 years young.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Programming Tutorials. HTML Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. Because I’m also a self-taught programmer, I can tell you that you probably don’t want to invest the time teaching yourself how to program. Graphic Design Theory. Photoshop Tutorials. Typography Tutorials. User Interface.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Do you have any idea how sweet that salary will taste to them? Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. Competitive salary once we obtain funding. I have an idea, trust me.

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High On “App-titude”: Why Android Development Is Fast Becoming A Popular Career In IT

YoungUpstarts

Average Salary: $95,000. Some of these specific technical skills are: Java: It is a requirement to be fluent in the programming languages in Java. Familiarity with APIs: A lot of apps today have a network-based element making it sometimes essential to work with different application program interfaces (APIs).

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. In a way it did this, but the opportunities didn't really come until nearly 3 months into the program. Learning programming is hard to do alone.

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How to Build and Structure a Conversion Optimization Team

ConversionXL

To start, here’s what I recommend: On a scale of five bars, hire someone who has five bars for strategy and maybe two to three bars for technical chops–specifically familiarity with html, css, and javascript are valuable at the start.