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Aug
5
2009

Ask Fair: How Much Should I Offer A Writer to Work on my iPhone App?

At an iPhone developer Meetup a few nights ago, an iPhone developer asked me a key question: “how much equity in my project should I offer to the technical writer that I need to finish my app?”
His gut feeling was that as the main developer, he of course should keep most of the revenue.
There are [...]

Feb
11
2009

Reward Performance with Vesting

A few years ago, a friend of mine founded a startup with a long-time colleague who was a great salesman. It turned out that the Web 2.0 business my friend was running didn’t actually require those sales skills and so after a few months he had to let this person go. That could have [...]