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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

He covers startups, music, social, mobile, health, and education. Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. In my career I’ve seen many times the positive effect of a rich software development discipline, full life cycle, QE vs. QA, test driven development, all the “other” parts of SW dev. This imbalance keeps L.A. What is Drupal?

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. ProfessorVC.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Engineer. UI Designer.

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

VC Cafe

You’re in Silicon valley, competing against the best of the best. A lot of us in the room are starting mobile companies. I have an early stage startup, but it’s hard to find people that understand that long term commitment. Should I move to Silicon Valley? . Like marriage but worse.

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Welcome to the Era of Decentralization

Hippoland

But my perspective, as a high school student growing up in the Silicon Valley at the time, was different. The 90s was about moving just about every piece of software from isolated desktops to online. It was a big change in how software and infrastructure was written. The 90s was impactful for so many reasons.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. Loading.