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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. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. I want to hire before I have the ability to pay anyone.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

That was a $19k salary increase from my previous job as a business analyst, just less than five months ago. They say, “desperation breeds innovation”, and that led to me asking the hiring manager if they could bring me on for an internship or an apprenticeship. To my surprise, he said yes. I couldn’t turn it down.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

HTML Tutorials. Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. Otherwise, you will have to offer actual compensation (read salary) in addition to corporate shares. If you don’t have the money to provide even a reduced salary up-front, find investors. Salaries/Bonuses. Design Articles and Tutorials.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

Hire a Programmer The Hope: You’ll use the programmer to build a prototype that will get you traction and experience. You know how to product manage and you’ve hired programmers before. I recommend you start by reading this post on how to hire a programmer. We tried this at Yipit and failed.

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How to Build and Structure a Conversion Optimization Team

ConversionXL

What Roles to Hire for a CRO Team. You’ll have an easier time hiring, no one will be overwhelmed by task-switching and a lack of resources, and you’ll have specialists who are the best at their craft. When to Hire Each Role. Hiring a developer with experience in CRO versus one without can make a huge difference.

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. They paid themselves small salaries and setup monetary goals for the business each month. With some effort and patience, the three watched their salaries finally grow as profits from their paid plans started rolling in. How’d they do it?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college.