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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

www.entrepreneur.com

Or she could argue that the prototype is so critical to the business that she should get 50 percent of the company's stock. How should you decide if your prototype designer should be a co-founder who deserves 50 percent of your company or deserves $30,000 in sweat equity for her work as an employee or consultant? Entrepreneur.com.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)