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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Okay, so now you have it narrowed down and have determined that you need: Part-Time CTO or Technology Advisor to help guide you and close a bit of the Startup Founder Developer Gap , and Equity-Only Cofounder Developer - the first real developer that will work for equity and produce the bulk of the application. Go to user groups.

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Early Startup Employee Compensation

Austin Startup

Background reading: Founder Compensation: Cash, Equity, Liquidity Fatal Errors in Early Startup Hiring Early Hires: Options or Stock Given how deeply involved we are with early-stage startups hiring their first key employees, I figured it would be helpful to outline a few key principles to help entrepreneurs navigate the topic.

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Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple!

www.mattbartus.com

Equity for Consultants – Keep it Simple! posted Feb 3 in Equity , People issues. Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. Blog blog archive. Quora Answers. About Matt.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. But I also leaned that is actually ok. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. Thanks to Daniel Javor, Next Luxury ! #4-

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

For example: Don’t accept equity compensation (stock shares) without knowing the percentage of the company you’ll own. From there, I began googling things like “first employee startup equity” and “startup offer negotiation.” These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups.

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HR by the numbers

The Equity Kicker

More recently we have started to apply similar disciplines to drive productivity improvements in the fuzzier areas of business – e.g. sales and marketing effectiveness, return on investment analysis of new IT projects and most recently innovation accounting from Eric Ries and the lean startup movement.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. Call it facts for hire. Hiring The Right Candidate. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.