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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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We thought we'd talk with Chris about what Jetpack is up to. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Starting with 25% is even harder. Not worth it.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. Things got so bad on one project that we ended up doing split shifts with teams of people programming from 8pm-6am and the next team arriving at 8am. Then the unintended consequences started cropping up. The money slide is the graphic below.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. So cheer up everybody, this too will pass. Foreign Service.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Start – It’s The Only Way You Will Know. Mark reinforced this message by telling the students, “I didn’t start young enough. I started at 31. The reality is, most startups do not work.