The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Go for a convertible notes/equity and save the legal nightmares for when you actually have proven that you’ve got a credible business model. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding. secured their seed round in only 2 months.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. There’s definitely a learning curve, but for anywhere between $7-$25 an hour for experienced coders, it’s hard to deny.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). A beginner will get things working, but go up the ladder a little and you'll get a coder who has learned how to innovate.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Rent-a-coder and Guru - These sites, and the millions of others like them, are in a different category. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution. Not settling the question of equity while working on the company is a ticking time-bomb.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Femgineer Coder. Sweat equity or salary? HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

This challenge has many dimensions - from receivables and cash flow, to commercial banks (in spite of the strong economy) still mostly on the sidelines, to the availability of private equity and other forms of risk capital to fund growth initiatives. Also ranked high on the list was properly "training, educating, and rewarding" employees.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Hang out at the Red Rock Café at night to watch the coders at work trying to stay caffeinated. For extra credit, stand outside one of the 3000 Sand Hill Road buildings wearing a sandwich-board saying “Will work for equity” and hand out copies of your executive summary and PowerPoint presentations.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? There’s no formula however I do know … the more you build before you need to hire / partner, the more equity you can keep.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

For example, you’re a copywriter in need of a website and a coder starting his own site can’t write copy. The home equity line of credit is the most common. The home equity line of credit is the most common. Use Some Form of Collateral. But it requires you to borrow money at the risk of losing your home.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It's not a question of me being unwilling to work for equity -- I am. Also witness the countless nights and weekend that FOSS people invest in their projects and in that environment coders tend to think other people will not commit. If I'm shopping an idea around, that's a different story. Raising cash is an easy test.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

2) The Biz Person (organization and equity person) who understands how to structure the company and raise capital. I don't think it's enough to have a business guy and a coder. This person has to be able to work with and communicate with others to bring their vision to life. 90% of entrepreneurs can not raise capital.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. Startups don’t have access to the same resources or brand equity. .” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K Startups are designed for astronomical growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. And the equity in their house isn’t rising. And you don’t see it.

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