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Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)

VC Cafe

Kevin – consumer Internet plays, often times they don’t have a business model. A lot is happening because we have deployment platforms, code platforms, and now we have capital platforms like angellist. The top 10-15 we manually review. Development for equity. He put a lot of emphasis on performance.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Engineering/QA. To that I say baloney.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was becoming a business model destined to fail. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. We admire, trust, and respect each other and have a great working chemistry.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

How Much Diligence is Due. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. ► April. (1). ► February. (1).