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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact.

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Starting Startups - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

How To Change The World » December 14, 2009.   He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.    They got better and better as the software application got more capable.  Starting Startups. So, Paul Graham is a brainiac. 

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Set any vesting schedules and expiration dates on roughly similar terms, if for no other reason just so you can track all of them correctly. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. More complicated enterprise software applications are a good example of that.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. It’s hard to think of a hardware/software or life science technology that dominates its space for years.

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Lessons Learned: Employees should be masters of their own time

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. At IMVU , these were quite common (after all, were shipping code 50 times a day). March 3, 2009 9:54 PM surya said. March 3, 2009 10:02 PM Sean Murphy said. I asked why.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ).

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