Kynlyn

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by Kynlyn 15y ago
I'm one of those guys that has to fight like hell to retain talented developers, so I understand where this guy is coming from. However.... He admits it's usually about money. Well duh. Then he has to pay them more. If you want to hire grea
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by Kynlyn 15y ago
We're the same. Even though the bulk of our devs are in the office, we still use campfire because it's the central hub of communication. (commit messages, CI build notices, when stories get updated in Pivotal,etc.) And it's searching abilit
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by Kynlyn 15y ago
We have both in-house and remote developers at AutoRevo and while we've been successful at maintaining both, we've stumbled a bit in a few areas. The biggest problem we have is the remote folks feel disconnected. Even with Campfire and Skyp
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by Kynlyn 15y ago
Zach completely missed the point. She never advocated that women avoid startups. She simply said that women are smart and capable enough of figuring out what they want to do by themselves. If they want to do a startup, then fine. If they do
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by Kynlyn 15y ago
I applaud your persistence and motivation. I really do. I'm merely saying you have to be realistic about your contributions and expectations of others. True, the non-technical person can handle sales, billing and all of the administrative s
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by Kynlyn 15y ago
Leading a tech company and starting one are two entirely different things. Sounds like what you are trying to do is start one. The issues of a non-technical person starting a tech company are many and have been discussed here before. If you
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by Kynlyn 15y ago
Payroll is sufficiently complex to justify outsourcing it to someone else. You don't want to make a costly mistake on taxes, etc. We've outsourced payroll almost since day one. There are a number of companies that will handle payroll, even