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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase. In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee. Mental energy that can’t be spent launching your product. 4 Matt Doar on 09.29.09

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Startup Equity For Employees

www.payne.org

From Payne.org Wiki. 7 Salary vs Equity. Companies raise money by selling new stock after the board of directors authorizes the sale to investors. Salary vs Equity. Most startups look at your compensation as a total package: stock plus salary. About Payne.org Wiki. Startup Equity For Employees. 3 Dilution.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Voluntary salary reduction program. This can take the form of a traditional sales pipeline or a registration-activation-revenue chart. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Selling is an honorable profession. Everyone from the receptionist to engineers is selling.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

Links: » Joel on Software discussion » Business of Software discussion » Business of Software FAQ » Business of Software Wiki » Forum guidelines (Please read before posting!) There is also an industry of people who put up "independent" review sites and drive a lot of affiliate sales through PPC.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. The ArsDigita of Greylock, General Atlantic, and Allen had nearly 200 with lots of new executive positions at $200,000 or over, programmers at base salaries of $125,000, etc.