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10 Smarter Ways to Save Money in Your Business

Kodorra

Since this virtue served me well throughout my entrepreneur journey, here I’d like to share the same money-saving tricks that helped grew my company to its acquisition. I once even lectured my fresh graduate coder to stop printing out those PDFs I emailed him. Digitize everything. Enroll in online courses.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

9 Recession Proof Your Programming Skills - Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal on 04.16.09 .] #8 Kevin Godden on 02.11.09 at 4:25 pm All very good Ideas I think, it is very refreshing to read some positive ideas about how to deal with the current environment as there is so much negativity about! at 11:31 am [.]

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Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths

Software By Rob

It shouldn’t really matter if you’re great coder or art designer or project manager. And, when I last checked, neither selling nor product marketing was on typical coder’s list of strengths. You just start your development, design or consulting business and life is good again. Except it is not.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition. So what can you do?

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How To: Be A Good Employee, Be A Great Boss | #winningcareers

Occam's Razor

We all start as individual contributors, and we are good at technical competence – that narrow collection of skills you need to be a coder, a cook, an accountant. They tell a coder how to write advanced code. Acquisition-Behavior-Outcomes for dashboard. This is why, as a boss, I love frameworks so, so much!

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).