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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

socalTECH

They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. I jumped in at the end of 2010, just as the majority of investments happened--I think $50M to $52M came in 2011. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator. That led to the expansion to the second location.

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