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www.ericsink.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
The Business of Software. Software Development. 2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. About Eric.
Diego Basch
MARCH 4, 2011
I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem.
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rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.
Reid Hoffman
JULY 27, 2021
If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. In other words, execution.
Reid Hoffman
JULY 27, 2021
If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley. In other words, execution.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.
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