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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. I pick my cofounder's brain almost daily about the inner workings of our product, so that I can be better informed about the tech side of things.

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Debt, Equity and a Third (and Fourth) Thing that Might Work Better

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This morning Seth Godin published a post titled Debt, equity and a third thing that might work better. That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software.

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

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Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Tristan Kromer • Nov 12, 2010 doesn't bring any answer Julien Chabe • Nov 15, 2010 The creative guy should use Axure to build a HTML prototype himself. Just go to a meetup or post an ad promising equity.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development. This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. Ev From nothing to something?

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

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Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ?? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Phonegap  / Appcelerator (Titanium)  : Write mobile apps with HTML/CSS/Javascript.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Someone who can actually CSS/HTML/*script the design they just made. He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. Note: in a non-tech environment these would be R&D, product development, and sales/marketing.