Hiring Your First Engineers Without a Technical Founder
How to assess technical skill you cannot evaluate directly, what to test for, and the hiring mistakes that are hardest to undo at small scale.
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What we have learned shipping AI systems, SaaS platforms and industry software — including the parts that went wrong. Written by Purushottam Kumar Suman.
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In-House or Outsourced: Choosing by Time Horizon
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How Runway Should Change Your Engineering Decisions
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Choosing a Technical Co-founder, or Deciding Not To
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Why Fixed-Price Projects Go Wrong for Both Sides
Fixed price feels safe and creates incentives that damage the product. When it works, when it does not, and the middle ground that usually does.
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Your First Hundred Customers Should Be Manual
Automating before you understand the workflow builds the wrong thing efficiently. Why doing it by hand first is an engineering strategy, not a stopgap.
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