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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Outside project work for clients helps to assemble talented development teams.

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How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

I was working as a software developer in New York City and came upon a recurring problem, having to spend tedious hours coding online forms. Determining if your product can be bootstrapped. Business decisions must be made carefully at a bootstrapped company. Facebook had just opened its doors to outside college campuses.

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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

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Bootstrapping Your Start-Up Business with Little or No Money

entrepreMusings

For other local bootstrapping resources here in Austin, check out the Bootstrap Austin site. Here are just a few tips on bootstrapping your new startup that I have found particularly beneficial from my own experience: Outsourcing. Another effective bootstrapping technique you can use is partnering with a complementary business.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system?

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. While interviewing such a wide cross section of people, I realized that I had a golden opportunity to test some of the prevalent folk wisdom about hiring. As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude.