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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If they charge well above the market average then they are usually either greedy or motivated to do something on their own that you are basically funding. You are probably wondering how do I know if they are asking for more than the market rate or not?

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The Future of Web Startups

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In essense, let the market design the product. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them. Atlanta is just as hosed as Munich. We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. Weve done the same thing ourselves.

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