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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

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Surly, Silicon Valley wasn’t in a bubble. Developers weren’t as in high of demand. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. Ideally, your technical skills would be the following: Programming experience in JavaScript or jQuery, HTML/CSS and AJAX.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Silicon Valley Bank seems interesting. Advocate for the appropriate use of SAAS, design patterns, frameworks, SOA, ORM, and MVC. I been trying it for a while.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

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One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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GLIIF, LLC is a Hot Silicon Valley Startup designed to disrupt QR Code usage in advertising. It just seems to me that having a great idea without Silicon Valley connections becomes an obstacle. Programming and Web Development Lists. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook. or Twitter.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. The “haves&# possess money, power, influence, or the right friends with those qualities.