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Building a Dream Team

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September 24, 2013
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Building a Dream Team

Some thoughts on building a great team and stopping the chase for the ideal candidates.

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Mike Aparicio

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Transcript

  1. Building a DREAM TEAM Mike Aparicio User Interface Engineer, Groupon

    [email protected] @peruvianidol
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  8. Full Stack Developer

  9. MYTHICAL CREATURES

  10. The stack HTML CSS JavaScript Ruby on Rails MySQL Server

    Shit UX Content Strategy Typography Photoshoppin’ (more of a spectrum) @jasonsantamaria @lukew @brad_frost @wycats @vpieters @karenmcgrane @chriscoyier @jeresig DESIGNERS DEVELOPERS @montywi @linus__torvalds

  11. “FULL STACK” HTML CSS JavaScript Ruby on Rails MySQL FRONT

    END BACK END
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  13. BOX SCORE GP GS FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA

    DREBOREB AST STL BLK PF TO PTS
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  24. BUILDING A DREAM TEAM HOW DO THEY WORK?

  25. DRAFT YOUNG TALENT

  26. HIRE SPECIALISTS

  27. MENTOR YOUR TEAMMATES

  28. HIRE A GOOD MANAGER

  29. TAKE CARE OF YOUR PLAYERS

  30. “Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know

    your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.”

  31. THANK YOU! Mike Aparicio [email protected] @peruvianidol http://idol.pe/geekfest-dreamteam