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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. The beauty of programming is that you take a concept and turn it into reality with just typing some stuff into the computer.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. The beauty of programming is that you take a concept and turn it into reality with just typing some stuff into the computer.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Ideally, your technical skills would be the following: Programming experience in JavaScript or jQuery, HTML/CSS and AJAX. equity in the company. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Skip to primary content.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Programming Tutorials. HTML Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. Because I’m also a self-taught programmer, I can tell you that you probably don’t want to invest the time teaching yourself how to program. Graphic Design Theory. Photoshop Tutorials. Typography Tutorials. User Interface.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. In a way it did this, but the opportunities didn't really come until nearly 3 months into the program. Learning programming is hard to do alone.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Technical courses from Udemy: Learn how to make iPhone and iPad apps in 1 hour without any programming knowledge. Learn all the programming languages needed to become a web developer from scratch. Pick up your programming skills from Codecademy. Learn to Develop an iPhone or iPad App in 4 Weeks. Codecademy. Khan Academy.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced.