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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. To start off you should focus on working with a company that offers you direct access to engineers and is willing to work as an extended branch for your team. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. Don’t do that stuff. Specialization.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain. Take good notes!

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). cakePHP (PHP). Drupal (PHP). Kohana (PHP). Zend Framework (PHP). WordPress (PHP). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…).