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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team. We began interviewing a selected few just a few days later on Sunday afternoon in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. university. Many thanks, Scott.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. So you see my dilemma.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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In San Francisco one can find hacking events on a daily basis, as well as many unconference events where people get their hands dirty playing with code. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. 17 – Be unable to Attract Investors.