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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Additionally, Convertible Equity is “equity” that may have a lower capital gains tax benefit for investors, since it is likely classified as “qualified small business stock”. Crunchboard.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Can you afford to have your starting engineering salary run your company at $130,000 per year plus stock and benefits? Ditto for Apple. We couldn’t at my last company, Rover.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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