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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? I have a related dilemma. So you see my dilemma. 10-15/hour.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. This may well be the first project you have managed but most programmers have worked on dozens and they have invaluable experience designing features and interfaces.