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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Tiny, contracting market. Huge upfront software licensing fees. Vest, young man. Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET.

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