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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Think Again How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup - Startup Professionals Musings , June 20, 2010 Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 Eight Tips To Successfully Bootstrap Your Business Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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Ways to bootstrap a startup: “working in waves”

joel.is

my creations dev experience recommended videos my card Ways to bootstrap a startup: “working in waves&# 5th December 2010 • Comments I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

Bootstrapping 101. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. April 4, 2010 8:34 AM.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Good stuff from Jason.

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. There are MANY of them. You might be surprised why this is the case.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

By September that year they would launch what would be one of the first crowdfunding sites on the Internet. But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now. How successful have they been?

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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

In other words, you have done wonders while “bootstrapping.” Before leaving GE Healthcare in late 2010 to start Caremerge, Asif was responsible for a portfolio of healthcare products generating $140 million annually with over 3000 customers (Hospitals and large centers) worldwide. Show Capital Efficiency.

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