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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. I remember riding across campus, about a 15 minute ride (each way) to save $.50 50 on a slice of pizza. This is inconceivable in my life today.

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. They’ll complain that Server Density costs infinity percent more than OSS, because they value their own time at zero, not having to e.g. pay salaries or account for a budget or anything. by Patrick.

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

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. A language is just a tool for a good developer, not a limitation. I fit all criteria of the people you’re looking for except for the junior developer one. Look what happened to Gawker.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).