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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Irma Olguin : I was earning these contracts, these web development contracts, and then being relatively desperate and new, building out my network. And ended up building this client base and a reputation for doing almost anything that touched electricity. Eric Ries : Well, how did you do that accidentally?

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

www.quora.com

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. So it can be done. But you have bigger problems.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They may ask you to continue working and paying through the website, to boost their reputation there, or they may want to just go direct. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. a foundation.

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

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? Is “I want to write client software that can run on 98.5% So clueless.

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