The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

I’m lucky to make a good salary, but there’s no way I could afford $500k to $700k on a home. Software companies are desperate for talent; and yet we keep moving our companies to San Francisco where there’s an engineering shortage (and insane salaries). I host a developers lunch every second week. Photo via Vernonbeaches.com.

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Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 165

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Nick Smoot just leased offices in Venice for his social-networking app for businesses, Here On Biz, based on all the activity in the area. "I

Los Angeles 87

Los Angeles San Francisco Southern California Silicon Valley 87

blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Compensation is probably between $0 and a ramen salary. This is an area that varies widely and can significantly impact how much equity a technical cofounder receives (if they take more salary). Ex: theyre primarily a back-end programmer, who can code basic front-end specs, and who can administer cloud hosting.

Technical Cofounder 43

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Equity Salary 43

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

For example, my proofreading business was able to generate a salary level income – sometimes as much as $15,000 in one month during peak season – from barely 100 unique visitors a day to the website. Host your own seminar or workshop and sell tickets to it on your blog (and record it to make a DVD product you can sell).

Affiliate 110

Affiliate Las Vegas Audio Advertising 110

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. The ArsDigita of Greylock, General Atlantic, and Allen had nearly 200 with lots of new executive positions at $200,000 or over, programmers at base salaries of $125,000, etc.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

You can go without these expenses for a short time while in startup mode, but if you plan to build a company that’s sustainable in the long-run you’re going to need to cover these expenses before you think about collecting a salary. Decent hosting with decent support will run $20/month.

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Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I don’t know of an opensource or hosted version of Kickstarter. When starting a new venture, esp one in concept phase should you be drawing a salary? I personally only take salary once there’s profits. seems like you’ll need to build it. What are the top 5 reasons entrepreneurs fail? If so much should you take out?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Knowem provides a really useful service that lets you easily check a large chunk of the popular social network sites to see if your brand name is available to register. Starting a blog on Wordpress costs nothing, and good Wordpress hosting can be very inexpensive, too.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping SEO Startup Widget 49

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 Management.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. They typically started before high school — sometimes before middle school — and never looked back. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. 7% of cell phone market.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Spend the $70/year to register your domain and buy hosting. If they do not offer WordPress in the hosting package, keep looking. Im looking to create a social networking site (dont laugh.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They’re cutting salaries and making the last tens of thousands — or if they’re lucky a hundred thousand — last. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. The company, which hosts email for companies on cloud servers, got the money from Alven Capital. November 29, 2012. Source: BBC ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93