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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date.

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

blog.expensify.com

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) Like what?! Joel Martinez.

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