www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

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

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. Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I don’t know of an opensource or hosted version of Kickstarter. I’m a web designer but I need to find a dependable software developer to team with. 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. Please comment.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

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. This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. Many ASP.NET devs also do Ruby on Rails development.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84