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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Whereas, taking the job at X company, advancing to Y position, attaining Z salary, didn't feel natural. He was our IP attorney. And what I think you heard in that, like "I accidentally created a software development competition," is actually not quite right. Software development. They need food on the table.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

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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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

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. We have a few contracts for software development, most of which were found through connections.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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