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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Tweet. --> It’s a big decision to make your first hire, because what you’re really deciding is whether you want to keep a lifestyle business or attempt to “cross the chasm” and maybe even get rich. There’s already a lot of great advice about hiring at little startups. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Additionally, the language you stick with will affect your options if you need to hire new team members. That said, it’s generally wiser to stick with freelancers when hiring. Remote developers are statistically more experienced and you can hire based on their proficiency instead of proximity to your office. Open Source Code.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We hire generalists because the company wants to be able to dissolve one division one day if it’s not working, and then move those same people into something else that’s new or already working.

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

Now Hiring for an Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer As part of the project team, your role will include leveraging the latest tools and technology in C++ 3D graphics for a diverse selection of desktop application software projects, as well as collaborating with your team in building innovative software products.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. While I was still in high school, I became a Java "expert" during a time when there was no such thing.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? You can’t replace this stuff with Java. Ironically in Silicon Valley consumer Internet business have become hits driven businesses. The Internet is “smart pipes.” ” Them, “Oh, we’ve hired A,B,C company to do it for us.”