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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity?

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. THANK YOU!!!