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Entrepreneurs: regarding equity to developers

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If you’ve considered finding and asking a developer for his or her time in exchange for sweat equity, I’m going to strongly advise you against it. All the engineers I trust to execute a project swiftly, professionally and with quality, especially under startup conditions, will not touch an upfront equity deal with a 10-foot pole.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. As they say, A players hire A players, B players hire C players etc.

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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. Another option is sweat equity. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Dan drew up his thoughts around a job description for a web Chief Technology Officer (or Chief Technical Officer), and invited us to follow suit.

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Which language should my startup use?

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Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Java stands alone from the four others.

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How to pick a co-founder

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What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). As a corporate lawyer for 15+ years, I just wanted to echo your sound advice that co-founders should impose reasonable vesting restrictions on the equity issued them. Geeks can always be hired.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

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Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others.

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