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Re:Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:19PM (#1489128)
Could anyone point to/share a discount code? Thanks!

Ask HN: When to listen to users & when not to?

Andreessen has said he thinks the highest entrepreneurial ability is shown by knowing what advice to take and what advice to ignore. It seems there are 2 diametrically opposed camps, to which to you ascribe to?1) Use customer testing/validation (e.g., A/B, #leanstartup, et.al.) to drive design & feature decisions. Your job as the developer is to only iterate quickly and have a fast...

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Ask HN: Facebook canvas app vs. FB Connect/Platform?

Given the latest Facebook announcements affecting developers, how would you weigh the pros/cons of betting on doing a Facebook canvas app as your user's primary means of interacting with your application (as opposed to going to your own domain which would then use FB Connect for login and other the FB API for other features such as friend picker, constant auth, profile sharing, etc.)? Some...

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Facebook canvas app vs. FB Connect/Platform?

Given the latest Facebook announcements affecting developers, how would you weigh the pros/cons of betting on doing a Facebook canvas app as your user's primary means of interacting with your application (as opposed to going to your own domain which would then use FB Connect for login and other the FB API for other features such as friend picker, constant auth, profile sharing, etc.)?Some...

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In addition, we would be offering market-rate base salary, which is a bit easier to find benchmarks for. The first link was very helpful, however, it didn't seem to include a discussion around ranges of equity for such roles at such a stage, i.e., pre-investment. I've seen some other blog postings on the subject but for post-investment, Series A-stage.

If there are others that have suggestions or data points, they're most welcome! Thanks!

How much equity did you give to first generation-hire engineers (non-founders)?

Hi, all! Would appreciate your guidance: We're looking for examples of pre-investment equity compensation ranges for first-hire senior & mid-level developers (one is coming in as a Director of Engineering from another startup, the other is senior front-end Flash/Flex/Actionscript guru). These would be initial "first-generation" hires, joining the co-founders. I know this will also depend...

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Get an NDA with anyone you work with. "Ideas are easy, execution is hard" is a cop-out excuse by people who don't have any patentable worthwhile ideas of their own!
Re:Who wants a pownce invite? on Sunday July 01, 2007 @06:17PM (#31931)
yes pls: michaelkimadvisorycapital.com