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25 Things that make hiring technical talent much easier

This is going to be BIG.

You've built up some kind of a relationship over time--because recruiting (as opposed to hiring ) is a long term game. Your dev environment (pair programming, silo, etc) matches with how their brain works. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). who can't get on the same page. See the Joel Test.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Stage 2: The first hires. Once you’ve gotten a little funding and been able to hire a few more developers, for a total of 5 - 9, you may find that the ad-hoc method of coordination (expecting to overhear everything of importance by sitting near teammates) starts to break down. Don’t do that stuff. Herokus first teams.

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7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

If the account matches your personas (whether that’s based on company size, operational processes, or expected deal size), then you can justify cost-intensive ABM approaches (like personalized gifts). Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Discrimination on race when you’re hiring is bad, discriminating on price based upon behavior of customers is very appropriate. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. There are all these dimensions that you could split them up on. You can simply discriminate. It’s called price discrimination.

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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. Hire one from each.