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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. This is the kind of coder you are looking for. This post is about outsourcing coders.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

My favorite line about using blogging for PR I heard from Brian Solis who said, “PR doesn’t stand for press release, it stands for public relations.&# When you think about your blog, think about which members of the public you most need relations with. We then set out to build these features as quickly as we could.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Really, it''s a place to learn and connect with other entrepreneurs. Glad you asked.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

Microsoft rolled out an “ Inclusive Hiring ” effort that’s tailored to those who would never make it through a traditional hiring process, like exceptional coders on the autism spectrum who may not have linear employment histories or engaging interview skills. Certainly, in digital marketing, it’s a shortcut to success.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.