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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills. Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Avoid them. How do they handle testing?

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. HipChat : ”The dev team uses HipChat pretty extensively for chatting, both one-on-one and group. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer. This is our answer.”

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. They must exhibit a thirst for working in teams, helping others and being forthright.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

In most instances they still require some development, but it’s the kind that you can generally easily hire. For Non-Trival Tasks It’s Hard to Hire Good Developers The obvious way past this hurdle would be to hire the skills you are missing.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

This requires a visual web-editor (assuming you’re building a web-application). Personally I use Visual Web-Developer from Microsoft - it’s free and powerful. However, it is also very complicated to use, as it’s a full web-development environment. Write them as a chronological story.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.