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A Micropreneur Blueprint: How to Stay Solo, Bleed Passion, and.

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? You don’t even need to register. 0) #3 Rob on 07.14.10

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Two Must-Read Books for Micropreneurs

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This book is for software developers who want to start successful web businesses and includes interviews with Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Guy Kawasaki, and David Allen. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post?

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup?

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Sweat equity or salary? Tweet This Post 2010 07 /18 CATEGORY My Experience My Startup Write comment Write comment Comments RSS Trackback ( 1 ) Comments ( 4 ) JR July 20th, 2010 REPLY QUOTE Very interesting post. Its up to the entrepreneur to unleash their potential to accomplish great feats together.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

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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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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 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. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? 50 on a slice of pizza. at 11:07 am [.]

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer. Thoughts on.