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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Client work serves as an additional source of revenue to form new startups. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses. Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources.

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It’s Time To Ship

Eric Friedman

Why Shipping Is Important When Building Shipping defines software engineering in a magical way that is challenging to understand. When you release a software service that solves a problem that many people have, your monthly revenue can grow exponentially. So what exactly does shipping mean? Shipping begets more shipping.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I was bootstrapping the company and started with $5,000 that I had saved up from a prior summer internship. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50

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Navigating the Challenges of Scaling

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Having founded active campaign as a means to fund his education, Jason pursued a degree in fine arts until shifting his focus entirely to growing the company and his self-taught software engineer and technologist. So Jason, welcome back to the show.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Insightful. Thanks much.