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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

Bishay would charge tuition but would refund it if the students got jobs as developers and he earned a recruitment fee from the hiring company. A year ago, PayPal co-founder and serial entrepreneur Peter Thiel created the “ Thiel Foundation ” to give $100,000 to 20 people under the age of 20 to start their own companies.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. 07/06/2012. 07/04/2012.

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

My business is about investing in extraordinary founder talent so it pains me that I can’t write a Homebrew Term Sheet to Laura Weidman Powers. No one was really talking about diversity in tech in 2012 and there wasn’t much happening by way of solving the problem so we decided to just jump in and pilot and learn.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. University Resources.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #4: Seven lessons learned on the journey from founder to CEO

Austin Startup

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. Nothing says more about your culture than who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote. For example, I hired three CFOs in six years.

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