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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Understand where they were in terms of being able to pay or was this equity-only (sweat equity only). Unless you are a co-founder of the startup, a developer is probably not going to do all that well working on sweat equity alone. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). Pingback: How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… « Drowning American.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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Another option is sweat equity. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Sweat equity or salary? Tweet This Post 2010 07 /18 CATEGORY My Experience My Startup Write comment Write comment Comments RSS Trackback ( 1 ) Comments ( 4 ) JR July 20th, 2010 REPLY QUOTE Very interesting post. Poornima July 20th, 2010 REPLY QUOTE Always good to brainstorm with people from all walks of life.

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10 Reasons Why Capital Shouldn't Make Or Break Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Businesses can be built on sweat equity. According to the nonprofit Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, the 2010 startup rate is the highest in fifteen years, a great deal of which are sole proprietorships by necessity. A landscaping service can be started with only a used lawnmower and effort.

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Entrepreneurs: regarding equity to developers

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If you’ve considered finding and asking a developer for his or her time in exchange for sweat equity, I’m going to strongly advise you against it. I really feel for as often as I have the "equity" talk that I should have a pre-canned response on standby. October 31, 2010 4:14 "Pricila" had a busy night.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. For example, in January 2010, the U.S.