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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 ? So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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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. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a. Reply # Raghu · Dec 6, 2009 Agree with Ram’s comments. See [link] for more data points.

Cofounder 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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