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JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. During that time one of the founders had mentioned that for the initial agreed time (3 months, equivalent dollars could be translated to 2% of equity but no agreement was reached at that time). What are the terms the founders got in the deal?

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JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. It says what?!”).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending. It should also give a sense of what I covered to people who were not there.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" In this particular case, because mobile development is hot, it was pretty unlikely that this founder would find someone with experience with mobile development willing to jump on this. anyone who doesn't program).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" In this particular case, because mobile development is hot, it was pretty unlikely that this founder would find someone with experience with mobile development willing to jump on this. anyone who doesn't program).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

They tend to have the programming background to lead competent people by example and dig in and prove it where necessary. Even with this almost mythical person is there a possible Founder Developer Gap ? They can likely close a lot of the Founder Developer Gap. It’s much like the Founder Developer Gap, but down a level.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Ashish Soni, Founding Director, Viterbi Students Institute for Innovation(VSi2), Executive Director of Digital Innovation, and faculty member, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Jimmy Liu, CEO, Gymflow Rajiv Maheswaran, CEO, SecondSpectrum Jens Windau, CEO, AIO Robotics Kevin Winston, founder, Digital LA …and others!

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APRIL 28, 2014

I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. Challenges I started by asking the founders in the room to tell me some of the challenges they have working with developers. Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so).

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APRIL 20, 2010

You can also edit the forms directly in the program, but good luck with that. Open Communication eHarmony’s founders knew that initial communication with matches is not something that most people are going to be good at. Turbo Tax – one of the greatest examples ever.

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JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? The good news is that many of the founders that I talk to who are trying to find the lead developer want someone who can grow into the CTO role. Accounting?

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

They called that program Eatsy. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). They have a chef come in and cook a healthy lunch for everyone three times a week. That crazy chicken. Yes we can!

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