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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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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. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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10 Reasons Why Capital Shouldn't Make Or Break Your Startup

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Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it. You can keep overhead low. Moonlighting can pay the bills.

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6 Tips for Mothers on Starting a Business

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As you navigate the world of being a business owner and juggling the demands of home and family, here are a few tips to keep in mind. While it’s to be expected that you’re going to put a lot of time and sweat equity into starting a business, make sure you’re also carving out time for your family. million women in the U.S.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

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Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people. Sadly execution and analysis of these new social media channels has been hobbled by old world thinking. My new book Web Analytics 2.0 Twitter Analytics. Why be fake?

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Beware The Consultant

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Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly. Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. |.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.