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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. Post navigation.

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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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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. We focused too much on technology. Company : Nouncer. Too much money.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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10 Entrepreneur Comments That Kill Investor Deals

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The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. In fact, quite the opposite usually happens, due to complexity and work to switch. We have no competitors.”

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Ten Quotes That Indicate Your Arrogance is Showing

Startup Professionals Musings

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. In fact, quite the opposite usually happens, due to complexity and work to switch. We have no competitors.”