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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder. The world is much safer for non-founders.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. No one funded us.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Joel Martinez.

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