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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Market dynamics also play a role, with some types of candidates in shorter supply than others. Do you compromise, or do you keep looking?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I help lead the Engineering Leadership SIG at SDForum and wonder if you would be interested in speaking to our group about lean starups.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Would you mind sharing them?

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” In addition, there are different ways to build a growth team no matter the reporting and leadership structure.

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We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Austin Startup

She and her team had worked hard to convince their leadership that sponsoring the Capital Factory Lounge would be a good step in shifting the Walmart culture towards becoming more innovative. Farouk is an Account Executive at Connected, where he partners with clients to drive business value through software engineering.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.