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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.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Determined not to miss another opportunity, Graham has begun waiving fees and instead taking equity in clients he thinks have a good shot at success. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Honorees Resources.

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Using crowdfunding to validate demand

The Equity Kicker

There is a good post up today on Segment.io describing how they used Kickstarter as a lean startup tool to validate demand. Segment.io’s Kickstarter campaign was for a Python web development course. First the background: Kickstarter is the perfect way to validate an idea.

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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. It never occurred to me to start my own business that early into my career as a web developer.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] 7 Entrepreneurial Tips from YComb’s Startup School Presentations ‹ Justin Klemm – Web Developer and Entrepreneur. [.] link] 200+ Startup Questions Distilled Down To Five | Startup Lean. [.] Ideas are worthless!!!

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? Initial developer: partner or hired? What/How should I do?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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. How To Get There.