clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. When you attend an event to find a programmer, you are competing against many others in the same boat, and you are competing against companies offering very high salaries.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

For company with complex UI or usability issue, you might also want to add a small incentive to reward the sales of training module as this will impact churn, but this should be short term fix as your engineering team works hard to improve the product. Id appreciate any comments on how this would change as a base salary is added to the mix.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Otherwise, you will have to offer actual compensation (read salary) in addition to corporate shares. Salaries/Bonuses. Â Facebook.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

L et’s face it: with the amount of information we get on a daily basis through browsing and reading news, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other sources, it’s becoming increasingly harder to cut the wheat from the chaff. 5 engineers. How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? See also [link]. Short answer: Assuming 6 people.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were [.] I was always kind of curious. Now In Print!

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product? I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. Lots of people join start-ups for equity, minimal (if any) salaries, in the hopes that their dedication and hard work will propel the company forward into something great. Live your life.

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www.startupnorth.ca

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 I would assume that they are very similar but given the lower valuations and this may change the salary/options mix. How many early employees are forgoing salary? Are the percentages different?

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grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Equity-based pay is often used by the founders of young start-ups who want to grow their businesses but cannot offer big salaries to qualified professionals. In this scenario, your expected salary is reduced and augmented with equity. These are: Senior engineer: 0.3% Mid-level engineer: 0.2% July 29, 2010. Categories.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Digital Careers: "How can I get a bigger salary? Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Metrics & Analytics. Digital Careers: "How can I get a bigger salary? Analytics Career: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. Oracle is not but we have done work for them. By ????????????? ?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. Oracle is not but we have done work for them. By ????????????? ?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were going to pay me as a lab technician. Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Are You Single?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. Everything else, you’ll have to pick up yourself and learn as you go along.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Aside from working at Best Buy. Except for one thing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies. Many investors weren’t interested in working for a large company for a salary and bonus, and most hated the paperwork and salary limitations that the SBIC imposed. Was there some other structure? The fund would have limited life.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something. A+ engineering talent. Subscribe via RSS. Then launch.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Amusement & Recreation. FourSquare.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. Work Smarter Not Harder As I got older I began to realize that how effective you are is not necessarily correlated with how many hours you work. Now In Print!

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Get future articles delivered via Email or subscribe to the RSS feed. There’s a missing myth #0: “If my company is successful and I’m making a good salary and my equity is worth millions, I will be happy.&# Special thanks to Rob Walling for reading preview drafts of this article.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In this case, fully-burdened is not just the salary, bonus, and benefits of the sales rep, but also allocations for sales engineering support, executive support, marketing expense, and professional service expenses associate with securing the customer. Add RSS feed. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. Post a Comment.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. Does your product produce data, charting, pricing, jobs, salary data, images, videos etc?

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www.fastcompany.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

It’s people who are able to write code, not just any code—you’re average developer’s going to make a nice salary—but if that person innovates with code that “solves a problem” the opportunities are huge. It’s incredible; people don’t realize how many software engineers Wall Street takes off the market. Skip navigation. Fast Company.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Subscribe to comments with RSS. I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. Very good post.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain. Take good notes!

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