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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Prior to joining ffVC, I co-founded an early stage fashion messaging startup, and joined a TechStars NYC 2011 company as first engineering employee. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

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. iOS Developer Anki, Inc. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Madrona’s new $300 million fund — while the largest in the firm’s history — certainly qualifies in the early-stage group. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Avvo, Inc.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year.

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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. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. Date: September 4, 2013.