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Re:Ask YC: How can you recruit and reward non-founder progra... by wheels on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @10:47AM (#443345)
In my opinion, if you don't have money to pay them yet, they're a co-founder, even if you've already been working on things for a year. General rules for finding co-founders apply.
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Re:Ask YC: How can you recruit and reward non-founder progra... by cabalamat on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @04:20PM (#443832)
And these rules are...?
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Re:Ask YC: How can you recruit and reward non-founder progra... by wheels on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @04:50PM (#443876)
I'm not sure there's a reasonable compendium, but Paul's written a lot on such in his essays. There's some here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

For me it's pretty simple, though finding and verifying is the tricky part.

- You have to be able to put up with them. A lot of them. Really a lot of them. It's kind of like getting married there.

- They should be able to do something essential to the company's survival. And they should do that while "getting" what you're doing and thinking it's special.

- You trust their judgement. Enough to bet a few years of your life on it.

"Art of the Start" also has some decent info there.

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