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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. If you started the company yourself consider bringing on a “partner.&# By this I mean somebody who has a large and meaninful percentage of stock options – but nowhere near 50%. Founder vesting. Build prototypes and/or product.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. And they have a vested interest in this success. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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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. Outcome: last night a Biz Dev guy from Disney/ABC sent me an email asking about partnering with some of their online properties. Vest, young man. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer.

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Will Millennials Change Manufacturing?

Duct Tape Marketing

“It’s a neat idea to walk around and talk to people as business partners. They have a vested interest in how well the company does,” he observes. When the company was developing the X7 printer, Mark emphasized to the company’s software engineers the need for very precise dimensional accuracy.

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

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating.

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