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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Firstly, these high demand developers probably are near impossible for me to get. I’m not FaceBook or Twitter and have a s**t-ton of potentially imminent IPO stock options to offer someone. That’s good because I don’t want those kind of developers. That’s not my argument.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. During the last 2 years of building two startups with a massive development plan we at the same time built 400+ websites on a contract basis.