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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

For example, if your service is offering a widget you can use Google Analytics to track what sites is this widget on. To do that just call Google analytics from the widget code. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : link] Looking for Widgets? Startups!!!

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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A worker who is creating 10 widgets/hour at the beginning of a shift may be producing only 6/hour at the end of the shift, having peaked at 12/hour a couple of hours in. It is intuitively obvious that a worker who produces one widget per hour during an eight-hour day can produce somewhere between eight and 16 widgets during a 16-hour day.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm. Joel Martinez.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers.