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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. In between, I got an email from CJ Cenizal asking about this exact issue: I'm growing a social gaming startup, Elevated Games ( elevatedgames.com ) as Founder and CEO. I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire.

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Cyber Security At The Start

YoungUpstarts

When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” In fact, startups are at the perfect spot to implement a rock solid program at their foundational level, and then eventually grow it from there. Do we have offshore developers?

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One Startup’s Story: The Evolution Of An Outsourcing Strategy

ReadWriteStart

At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources – lack of funds, lack of manpower, lack of time. See also Are Crowdsourcing And Outsourcing No-Nos For Startups? ). As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. Plus, with India being 2.5

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

The basic idea is to extend agile, which excels in situations where the problem is known but the solution is unknown, into areas of even greater uncertainty, such as your typical startup. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Talk about waste.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. ONLY YOU DO!

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve been looking for suggestions for an initial deal structure that is appropriate for the theoretical case of a trusted dev shop putting in $100k in market-value of services over a 6 month period in time. How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e.,

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. No phone system.