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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Go for a convertible notes/equity and save the legal nightmares for when you actually have proven that you’ve got a credible business model. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding. secured their seed round in only 2 months.

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

www.quora.com

Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Tristan Kromer • Nov 12, 2010 doesn't bring any answer Julien Chabe • Nov 15, 2010 The creative guy should use Axure to build a HTML prototype himself.

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How To Build a Web Development Team Without Technical Expertise

www.collegemogul.com

We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. Especially when you need external resources, dont have the cash flow for compensation, and not enough traction for equity to be considered valuable.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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. His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. Other than that I cant say much more. Ev From nothing to something? What an asshole.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

Someone who can actually CSS/HTML/*script the design they just made. Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b. Having said that, if we must generalize the start-up with the best chances of succeeding are likely to have a CEO and a CTO. Jason Tugman • Dec 14, 2010 Why make web design and UX separate?