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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

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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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. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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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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