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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. Sweat equity or salary? When to start recruiting?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Read more: PEHub.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. This is a good thing. (I We have a lot of introspection to do. This is a good thing. (I

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand." Now is not the time to expand.

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John Doerr's 10 lean startup tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. Everyone from the receptionist to engineers is selling. Offer equity instead of cash.

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The Lean Startup Bundle

Startup Lessons Learned

It is the ultimate product development get-started guide to Lean Startup. It is the ultimate product development get-started guide to Lean Startup. If youre in that boat, today my friends at Appsumo are trying a new experiment that just might help you out.

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