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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Understand where they were in terms of being able to pay or was this equity-only (sweat equity only). Unless you are a co-founder of the startup, a developer is probably not going to do all that well working on sweat equity alone. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

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Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. Developers weren’t as in high of demand. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Need expensive resources up front. General startup expenses are beyond your means.

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Don’t Look For Investors for All the Wrong Reasons

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Need expensive resources up front. General startup expenses are beyond your means.

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Most Entrepreneurs Should Never Bring On Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Need expensive resources up front. General startup expenses are beyond your means.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

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In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Need expensive resources up front. General startup expenses are beyond your means.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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If they hire an accountant to help prepare and file their taxes that may cost around $500. Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad.