ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But that’s outsourcing development — it does not mean have a boundaryless team. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. At that time, Automattic had just 50 employees spread across 12 US states and ten countries. The best way to win the talent war?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. Startups are businesses. Coding is just one part of the equation.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. #2- Just looked at the paper I was reading. Photo Credit: Scott Harris. Photo Credit: Carl Potak.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Additionally, if there are only a couple of developers working on a small codebase, they will know the code well and the chance of introducing errors is lower because everyone knows all of the features and how things work together. In fact, you might even have a feature that no current employees understand.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Additionally, if there are only a couple of developers working on a small codebase, they will know the code well and the chance of introducing errors is lower because everyone knows all of the features and how things work together. In fact, you might even have a feature that no current employees understand.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. Web Developer. IT staffing, consulting and software development services.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Engineering/QA. He basically outsources everything. Customer Support.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

I assume both cofounders will be diluted equally as more employees and investors get involved. Domain specific experience within the target market are helpful as are more broad experiences in sales, marketing, product development, or business development (probably on the order of 5+ years outside of undergrad, grad, or MBA school). [4]

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

As a result, candidates ranged from self-taught college dropouts or associate’s degree holders to PhD holders, ACM winners, MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Caltech students, and Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google interns and employees with a lot of people in between. chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started -->.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Product leaders often believe it’s cheaper to buy software than build it. You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Poor project planning can lead to development cycles running over budget or over time. Will the software be a part of your business’s core offering?

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