Questions regarding practices of recruiting new employees for the business.
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Using your startup on your resume while job-hunting?
I have a very new solo startup that doesn't make any money (yet...), but it's time to get a "real job" so that I can pay the bills. I'm very proud of the work I did on my startup and think that it ...
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14answers
6k views
Should I put my “startup” experience on my resume?
I have a similar question to this one regarding putting your "startup" on your resume. I have a full time job and started a small company on the side. My startup isn't a product company - I've been ...
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6answers
883 views
How can you hire great developers for startups?
There is a lot of advice on how to hire great developers, which I don't think is quite relevant as far as startups are concerned.
The reason why I am saying this is because we--as a startup in the ...
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6answers
366 views
What Job Boards Do You Use to Find High Quality Technical Talent? [closed]
At some point, we all exhaust our networks and need to look externally for talent. We're planning to do some specific recruiting around front-end and "all-around" dev folks in the next few months and ...
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15answers
1k views
To be a great software company, you hire the best developers… how?
Joel Spolsky is always writing about how companies should treat and offer the best to their developers in order to be able to get the best of them... as a startup, when time comes and you do need to ...
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10answers
609 views
How do you recruit enough 'top talent' for your company?
For many organizations that have achieved some level of success, effectively growing the staff, without compromising the overall quality of who you bring on board, is a critical challenge. What do ...
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6answers
1k views
How does a technical person evaluate an MBA-type business partner?
I've read a lot of questions asking about how an MBA can find a technical person to implement their idea, but I haven't seen the other direction.
As a technical person, I know that I can get my idea ...
11
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5answers
277 views
Expanding development team for a startup
I'm a software developer and co-founder of a start up that's in a sprint to launch a web app the next 2 months. We have about 3 months of burn time we have before we need to get some funding. By ...
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11answers
544 views
Where can I get a designer?
For my startup (web 2 SaaS) I am looking for a good designer, probably with HTML/JavaScript skills. It seems this is pretty difficult - all good people have jobs. So I am thinking about remote work. I ...
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5answers
176 views
Adding my own developer to freelance team
Hear is my issue: I hired a freelance development firm to create a web app for my business. The developer is very talented and they produce great work. However, development has been very slow and ...
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2answers
165 views
Hiring developers. Ways to reach out?
My company has finally gotten to a place where we can hire a second developer, and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for doing recruiting (that are hopefully cheap).
I've posted to ...
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4answers
148 views
Where to find SR developers to join your start up?
Though I have come across many developers, I still cannot find where there might be a place where Senior developers who love to work in start ups can be found and who understand financial constraints ...
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7answers
2k views
Why do startups tend to offer fashionable “cool” job title names? Is it sane?
Since a few years I've seen job title names like
Javascript Assassin
Rails Master
PHP Guru
Python Ninja
Lisp Middle Earth Wizard
Perl Golfer
which are usually offered by startups. What's your ...
