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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ?

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. Skip to primary content.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

- Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. Do you have dollars to pay for development? Go to user groups.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

insert founder number] of the founders dropped out of [insert Ivy League school]. We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. No, I prefer boring businesses and established companies that are not seeking their own sweat equity for services provided.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. It’s one of the main reasons startup founders often shy away from reasonable SEO pricing models, opting instead for the riskier, cheap, outsourced route or the DIY approach —which are both fraught with their own perils.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. Early Stage Web Start-Up Seeking Developers.

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New on TNW Guides – How to Use Sweat Equity to Fund Your Startup [Sale Price]

The Next Web

Chances are, if you’ve not yet been in a position where you have to talk about splitting equity, you will be. For startup founders, there’s hardly any situation that’s less comfortable. How to Use Sweat Equity to Fund Your Startup is the newest release on TNW Guides. Maybe you don’t have to.