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A venture wants to hire me with founder status- the catch no salary or benefits for two years. How?

Mike Krim Digital Media Production Engineering & Broadcast Operations

May 10th, 2016

A venture wants to hire me with founder status- the catch no salary or benefits for two years. How does one survive?

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How to figure out equity split for cofounders joining at later stages?

Nikolay Derkach

July 30th, 2014

I'm considering joining a startup as a CTO/technical cofounder.In case of a completely new venture (just an idea), an even split seems to be fair.... More

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Marketing & Business Dev People - If I Write Code For 8+ Hours Every Day, What Will You Do?

Anonymous

March 23rd, 2014

As a programmer, I hesitate to join forces with people who don't write code when starting a SaaS company. A lot of programmers I know feel... More

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Cofounders vs. Founding Team Members: How do you decide the right titles for the right people?

Derek Dukes Business Development, Startups at Amazon Web Services

January 15th, 2015

As an entrepreneur one of the hardest things after finding cofounders is finding the right people to be employees 1-4 or 5. Of late I've seen a lot... More

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What's the bar for a non-technical cofounder?

Cedric Dussud coding

December 18th, 2012

Here in NYC I keep hearing how difficult it is to find technical cofounders. I'm a technical person looking to join someone as a CTO, so I've thought... More

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How to find a non technical cofounder?

Steven Schkolne Computer Scientist on a Mission

February 24th, 2015

Hi - so there's plenty of discussion on this site, re: finding a technical cofounder (TCF). My question is the opposite -- I... More

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Technical Co-founder Vs. First Employee Vs. Contract it Out

Matt Rodak

March 5th, 2014

Hi,I'm going through an ideation accelerator and I've gotten my idea to a point where it has be vetted by customers and advisers and I'm ready to... More

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How do you deal with a co-founder that seems to be becoming more of hassle than an asset?

Evan Walker Esports Manager at DraftKings, Inc.

March 7th, 2015

I started a company with a friend of mine who was really into it at the start and would go through spurts of quality work for weeks/months at a time... More

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Best Strategy for Find a Technical Cofounder vs. Hiring Freelancer to do dev work?

Annie

July 14th, 2014

If I am looking for a technical co-founder, how do I weed out the scams from the legitimate requests? I've found that it is SO expensive, and that... More

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I am intrigued to hear people's stories of how they managed to find technical co-founders and what draw backs did you encounter?

Chris Jordan Co-Founder

February 17th, 2017

I am currently in search of a technical co-founder to join my team but i'd love to hear about peoples stories regarding this subject for a bit of... More

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