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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).