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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that? Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring.

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Startup Development

SoCal CTO

How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Always have a developer do a test project before hiring them to make sure they deliver quality work. So, when hiring, focus more on being that leader, rather than the project itself.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

It's a mission critical IT service that website owners need. The Internet doesn't work right, and is broken, and without a CDN, you can't do what you need to do if you're the CTO of a large website. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. We're in the domain of hiring relatively technical people, gearheads.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. This team should be outside of the core development team and outside of the companys critical path.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Outsourcing 1. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem.

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