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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. We have a long history and so new employees have to spend a long time getting up to speed on the why, what, and how of everything that we do. Over a thousand people work here now.

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Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team. John Jantsch (22:27): The, my longest running client, uh, has been a client since 2004. Feel free to give us reviews. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson?

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