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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. 2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. About Eric.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)

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Why You Should Build Your Startup to Sell (But Not to Flip)

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This means that the easier your process is to teach, the easier it is to find employees who can do the work, the more employees you can hire, and the more profit you will make per sale. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post?

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I Will Review Your Website for Free

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. What I’ve found during the last year of running the Micropreneur Academy is that once you’ve seen hundreds of websites and run fifty A/B tests you develop a sixth sense about how a site can be improved. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? at 7:32 am [.]

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Theoretically, that’s why I hired them. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours. You don’t delegate life and death. Now In Print!

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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. What The Shift From RSS to Social Media Means for Marketers | John Doherty – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders?