chrischandler.name
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
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. Worse yet, they make you appear an amateur with little understanding of how the technology field and development works. So when is equity OK?
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 27, 2010
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. The technology stack that they’ve ended up with has evolved over time.
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startupbaltimore.org
OCTOBER 23, 2010
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 ! Catchy tune.
prosperati.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself. The Ruby community in Kuala Lumpur is fairly small. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
And no, I haven’t gone out and learned PHP or Ruby or the latest groovy language. This code is very lucrative when you understand its depth as it pertains to equities, venture capital, property and other income streams. entrepreneurship business code developing entrepreneurs Finance startups technology'
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 14, 2013
Markets: Pick new ideas because they’ve been made possible by other social or technological change. Get on the train as early as possible, but make sure the technology is there to make the product be enough better that it matters. Markets: Starting with the right idea matters. Empirically, you can only pivot so far.
femgineer.com
JULY 18, 2010
Sweat equity or salary? By letting them learn and play with new technologies from time to time. 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. The key is to balance it out.
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