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Entrepreneurs: regarding equity to developers

chrischandler.name

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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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

But then when I was eight or nine years old, the Gulf Warhead, I was born in Kuwait and security had lapsed, came together to rescue the country. This community of practice, in fact, our investors who bought half the company, the growth equity firm, they came to attraction community event. (04:51): What is community?

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

” Data Collective prides itself on its deeply technical core team, and the Big Data chops of its extended group of 35 equity partners, who, while Data Collective wouldn’t reveal specific names, all work or have worked at companies like Akmai, Zynga, LinkedIn, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, IBM, Citrix, Airbnb and VMware. .”

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What Software Was Used To Create Everlater?

Feld Thoughts

Everlater is built on Ruby on Rails , postgreSQL and is hosted on Engine Yard using a passenger/nginx combination. Nate and Natty use several standard Ruby/Rails packages (gems) to extend the base functionality of Rails. Now that you know how they got started, here’s what they ended up choosing.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

These entrepreneurs are looking for a technical cofounder and that person who will build a prototype from their idea in exchange for equity in the business. He’s not a programmer by trade, but instead of waiting around for a cofounder to appear, he taught himself Ruby, Rails, and MongoDB !

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

femgineer.com

Sweat equity or salary? But there is still the overhead of testing, scaling, and securing. We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

With an Early LPO, initial investment is a fraction of what it used to be for Angels and VCs to secure our services on behalf of their clients, in exchange for shares of the company, and the ability to invest further once their ticker symbol is live. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (.