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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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Top 9 Reasons to Choose Cloud App Development

The Startup Magazine

One of the biggest issues for small firms is capital expenditures, particularly if your budget can only afford one thing: hiring a certified expert or purchasing strong equipment. The cloud allows you to host applications without having to spend any money up front, and you can use that money to hire professionals or purchase office supplies.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. Or whether it’s a choice between using MySQL vs. Postgres. I’ve heard both arguments from CTO’s.

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Intermediate+ Web Developer

Transformify

The company is looking to hire a tal-ented Intermediate+ Web Developer. We have over 200 employees spread across 30 different countries. All employees work from home. We develop custom software appli-cations for clients in North America and Europe. Work hours are flexible and projects are interest-ing and challenging. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g.,

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

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