Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

To address this, Heather Terenzio, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Techtonic Group, developed Techtonic Academy , an innovative solution in the form of Colorado’s first federally recognized by the Department of Labor technology apprenticeship. I think many software developers share that sentiment. The benefits are obvious.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

It can be difficult to forecast the future trajectory of publicly listed technology companies, especially in the short term – after all, most of the available information is already capitalized in their current share prices. Take software developers as an example. Advancement takes considerably longer, as does demotion.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

Hiring mistakes and turnover can be costly for any organization; according to the Society for Human Resource Management , it can cost as much as half of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. Candidates that are open and passionate about their work will shine when it comes to this type of question.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

There was an informal verbal agreement that I would work for a certain hourly rate for my time. Now, they were able to raise enough money in the last 3 months to launch a product along with all the necessary software development to launch a pilot program for validating the idea. What’s your relationship with the investors?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

There was an informal verbal agreement that I would work for a certain hourly rate for my time. Now, they were able to raise enough money in the last 3 months to launch a product along with all the necessary software development to launch a pilot program for validating the idea. What’s your relationship with the investors?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. " Typically, this requires quite a bit more information for me to be able to respond and provide real help.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

So if you don’t have the money for unlimited ping pong tables and a gourmet chef—much less top salaries—can you still find and attract the best people? Also, a salary that barely gets someone by in tech hot spots is a princely sum in other parts of the world. Not only that, talent is key to growth. I think so.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Even though I had a job and earned a decent salary, I was spinning my wheels just to pay my bills. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website. I've identified as a writer all my life, and have a passion for sharing ideas and information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For a small business with constantly-strained capacity it can be incredibly difficult to post a job, sort through the resumes, vet the candidates, check those references, negotiate salary and benefits packages, execute the employment agreement, and complete the HR paperwork for payroll, insurance, pension plan, etc. What do you do?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

While this information is not incorrect, it is most certainly not the worth of your accounting firm, it is how much cash is tied up in your business. To formulate your profitability, you must take into consideration all outgoing payments like payroll, and your gross income, yes even your own salary. This is called a multiple.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? A suitable replacement is too rare; it takes too long to find someone, convince them to join for almost no salary, and get them up-to-speed and productive.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2016

Mobile apps have changed the way we do business, communicate with each other, and access news, entertainment and other information. This invariably points out to that the role of a mobile app developer has become ever more essential to provide users new ways to engage with their smartphones. Average Salary: $95,000.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Otherwise, you will have to offer actual compensation (read salary) in addition to corporate shares. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. If you don’t have the money to provide even a reduced salary up-front, find investors. Salaries/Bonuses. Red Flags Galore.

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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.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. I love open source, but I’m happy to pay for software that solves my needs, and expect to keep doing so. 50 on a slice of pizza.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Circa 5 million jobs in China are related to Apple manufacturing and still, there is no information on how these workers will be compensated as there is a slowdown and the production-related tasks can not be addressed working from home. Apple is not alone as tourism worldwide has been hit by the declined number of Chinese travellers.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. at 12:41 pm Rob, just a hypothetical question here: what if there were the equivalent to the iPhone app store for server software? Except for one thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whereas, taking the job at X company, advancing to Y position, attaining Z salary, didn't feel natural. And what I think you heard in that, like "I accidentally created a software development competition," is actually not quite right. Software development. I think that one of Irma's real gifts is that.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

An employee is normally paid a salary or wages. where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Ironically, given the state of the economy, I think now is an excellent time for me to take my micro-ISV company to the next step. The challenge is: 1) Find candidate sweat equity partners who: a) Have the skills that the business needs.

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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. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09 Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. They’ll complain that Server Density costs infinity percent more than OSS, because they value their own time at zero, not having to e.g. pay salaries or account for a budget or anything. by Patrick.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Information products have the best margins + if you can get them into a subscription of sorts – then you’ll have monthly re-occurring revenue. I am looking for any valuable information on getting people to order online and to gear people to our website also pitfalls to avoid starting a new business. What are the other essentials?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you want to start as a consulting company and transition to a software company, you don’t need a software product in the beginning. As you do work for your clients, you can get a firsthand look at their pain points, and use that information to help decide on the products that you should build.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Apparently you’re just as ignorant in the areas of logic and mathematics as you are at software development.

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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).

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