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Vision Pivots vs. Discovery Pivots

SVPG

If you're not familiar with the concept, see Your Business Plan Is Wrong. from Java to Ruby), or a "pivot" of their development process (e.g. As I work with different teams I find the term used in so many different ways. Mostly the different uses of the term are pretty harmless. It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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Entrepreneurs: regarding equity to developers

chrischandler.name

Be prepared with your business plan, term sheet, and probably a beer. It will vary depending on the unique situation of the developer, but a good rule of thumb would be to not offer it until AFTER you’ve developed a successful working relationship in which you have demonstrated your ability to execute your business plan.

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

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

Java 107
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Insane Perseverance in the Face of Complete Resistance

K9 Ventures

A couple of weekends ago, on a whim to teach myself Java I had written up software for hosting chat rooms. Running thousands of concurrent users was pushing the limits of what the Java VM could handle on the P200. I took every single class Jack Thorne taught at the business school. Entrepreneurship I. Entrepreneurship II.

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

www.quora.com

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. 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.