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How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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What Do Web Developers Do Exactly?

YoungUpstarts

Web developers need to have a wide range of skills and knowledge, including: Knowledge of various coding languages such as C+, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and HTML markup. Client service and support. Project management. Effective communication skills.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. If you want to build a website that, say, keeps track of your favorite restaurants, you might think, “Ruby along with Rails are great choices here, so let’s do that.”

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[Review] Rubies In The Orchard

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur and billionaire Lynda Resnick’s book “ Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business ” provides a fascinating glimpse into the marketing strategies behind brands like POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora and the Franklin Mint. image source ).

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. 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. A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart.

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I don’t care if this person is going to spend 60 hours a week writing inscrutable code that only a Ruby interpreter could love. Remember, tech support is sales ! You’re not hiring a Systems Engineer III for IBM or a Senior Regional Sales Manager for Dell. Writing skills are required.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Strategy Mapping Selling : Business-to-business sales and marketing – advanced selling and marketing strategies for major and key account sales. Learn Ruby on Rails , an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language, with this ten step tutorial. For example, check out this GE Skillshare school. Codecademy.