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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Rent-a-coder and Guru - These sites, and the millions of others like them, are in a different category. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution. Not settling the question of equity while working on the company is a ticking time-bomb.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Equity for Employees.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). A beginner will get things working, but go up the ladder a little and you'll get a coder who has learned how to innovate.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? There’s no formula however I do know … the more you build before you need to hire / partner, the more equity you can keep.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. Startups don’t have access to the same resources or brand equity. .” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K Startups are designed for astronomical growth.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).