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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. Sweat equity or salary? When to start recruiting?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard

Altgate

To the right of that are five charts one each for: Current Equity Equity at Hire Base Salary Target Bonus Actual Total Cash Each of these bar charts shows the respective compensation for the management team on a percentile scale (compared to the cohort). For obvious reasons, we compare founders to founders and non-founders to non-founders.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Don’t be the plaid guy. Paisley is OK.)

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] on 07 Sep 2010 at 11:16 am [.] ?????

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] on 07 Sep 2010 at 11:16 am [.] ?????

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