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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Go to user groups.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. The challenge here is to find candidate sweat equity partners who: 1. The key here is motivation.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

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. However, I would consider working at a discounted rate for equity in an idea that I believed showed merit and profitability potential.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

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).