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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developerssalary. To calculate precisely how much you need to spend on that, analyze the following factors: Developers’ seniority. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product. Hourly rate. Set up marketing and sales campaign.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get - Nathan Hurst's Blog

blog.nahurst.com

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). 6a] Salary upon funding -0%: No extra equity for getting a salary upon funding. Basically, its because ideas arent worth much.

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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

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. Whereas, taking the job at X company, advancing to Y position, attaining Z salary, didn't feel natural. That became Onward.

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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’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. The best people are either getting offers from or already working for, an 800-pound gorilla that won’t even notice a salary that might break your bank. Hiring local talent will force you to pay more than you can afford.