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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, Any additional funds they take out of the business are considered dividends.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.