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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. We were bought for a more reasonable 1x revenue (and about 4x pre-tax income) when the value of the AmeriData stock, options, and cash we took out were factored in. A few are longer than 12 weeks.

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Twitter Link Roundup #238 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why entrepreneurs should learn to say “I don’t know” more often – crowdspring.co/1pGXXeF.

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Twitter Link Roundup #91 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important? – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important?

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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I'm Writing a Book: “Start Small. Stay Small. A Developer's Guide.

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out → I’m Writing a Book: “Start Small. Stay Small.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

There are so many Facebook/Google/Apple multi-millionaires who receive new stock options every quarter, often a few hundred thousand dollars every quarter, that feel they should put something back into the system, plus they like the idea of being an investor. They’re betting on you.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. Sure, you can get away with less, but why? It turned into this blog. Here’s a personal story.

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