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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. With all the funded startups that are unable to hire, that’s a huge ace up my sleeve. From Codecademy and Try Ruby , to free programming books and free online courses. Many of us have said we’d love to work with one another again.

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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

I would never hire a “.NET NET developer” or a “J2EE developer”, or a “Ruby developer”. I will hire a great developer, and I do not really care which language he used the most lately, as long as he is great in it. Dec, 2007 (16). Nov, 2007 (15). Oct, 2007 (22). Sep, 2007 (11). Aug, 2007 (14).

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

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

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. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. or add your 2 cents).

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

femgineer.com

If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Ruby on Rails? One virtual machine per fisherman: On IBM, Linux, Mainframe and the cloud Where The Developers Are: Macs, MarkLogic, Autodesk, SAP On The Analyst Business: Stars, Quadrants and Developers On HP hiring Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, and the Ray Lane Manoeuvre My Firehose follow me on Twitter yours truly Recent Comments ???IT???Java??(2010?)

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Ruby on Rails? One virtual machine per fisherman: On IBM, Linux, Mainframe and the cloud Where The Developers Are: Macs, MarkLogic, Autodesk, SAP On The Analyst Business: Stars, Quadrants and Developers On HP hiring Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, and the Ray Lane Manoeuvre My Firehose follow me on Twitter yours truly Recent Comments ???IT???Java??(2010?)

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Transcript of How to Successfully Run a Business as a WordPress Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

When I discovered WordPress back in 2007, the first thing that happened is I discovered the plug-in repository, which is this free repository at wordpress.org, which has now over 30,000 plug-ins that you can download and include in your website for free. John Jantsch: Is that Ruby? Troy Dean: No, it’s not Ruby.