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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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And James doesn’t have any money to pay for development. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You’ll probably need to contact two dozen serial entrepreneurs with a very well-developed project before you get actionable advice and referrals.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. 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).

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”