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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

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I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. Founders are likely not paid for a long time and have a sizeable equity percentage for early risk and having the concept. Same Value for Sweat Equity as Investment Dollars?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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Startup Software Developers

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you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). reduced salary, partial equity, good experience, etc. I’ll give you equity in the company.” Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. who would love to talk with you.

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Startup Founder Developer Gap

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Source, Interview, Engage and Manage the Team(s) Now you know the kinds of people you need, the next steps are finding the people or companies, interviewing them, engaging them, and managing them. They can figure out how you can go get through technical and team strategy and can probably help you source, interview, engage and manage.

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Hiring a CTO for Your Startup

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Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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Hiring a CTO for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? WordPress is pretty easy to hack. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.