rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Sweat equity or salary? If they’re coming up to speed with the product, development cycle, and company dynamics is good to let them ramp up slowly. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products. But there is still the overhead of testing, scaling, and securing.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. However, I would consider working at a discounted rate for equity in an idea that I believed showed merit and profitability potential. XML Tutorials. Programming Tools. Joomla Extensions. Joomla Templates. MooTools Plugins.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Michael’s last gripe is that “software engineers don’t work for free.” ” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. “Business people” and “software people” are misnomers. Search: RSS Feed. I absolutely want cofounders when the time comes.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

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. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

Bootstrapping 41

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. Initial developer: partner or hired? I’m a web designer but I need to find a dependable software developer to team with.

Technical Review 44

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Insightful.

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