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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5% We also needed a domain name so making up a name was helpful there. 6- Whilst very drunk.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. and who is going to be updating it.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece.

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