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Entrepreneurs: regarding equity to developers

chrischandler.name

If you’ve considered finding and asking a developer for his or her time in exchange for sweat equity, I’m going to strongly advise you against it. All the engineers I trust to execute a project swiftly, professionally and with quality, especially under startup conditions, will not touch an upfront equity deal with a 10-foot pole.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

This community of practice, in fact, our investors who bought half the company, the growth equity firm, they came to attraction community event. (04:51): This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. One day it's great, one day it's like I'm failing, I'm falling. 14:21): So that was the second piece.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

” Data Collective prides itself on its deeply technical core team, and the Big Data chops of its extended group of 35 equity partners, who, while Data Collective wouldn’t reveal specific names, all work or have worked at companies like Akmai, Zynga, LinkedIn, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, IBM, Citrix, Airbnb and VMware.

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What Software Was Used To Create Everlater?

Feld Thoughts

Everlater is built on Ruby on Rails , postgreSQL and is hosted on Engine Yard using a passenger/nginx combination. Nate and Natty use several standard Ruby/Rails packages (gems) to extend the base functionality of Rails. Now that you know how they got started, here’s what they ended up choosing.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

Another option is sweat equity. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

These entrepreneurs are looking for a technical cofounder and that person who will build a prototype from their idea in exchange for equity in the business. He’s not a programmer by trade, but instead of waiting around for a cofounder to appear, he taught himself Ruby, Rails, and MongoDB !

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

The Ruby community in Kuala Lumpur is fairly small. As a result, most people in Malaysia are not familiar with stock options or equity participation. Spare no expense to find the absolute best person for this role. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US.