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TODO lists? Right! Scattered all over my code are comments TODO, just the way you spelled it! Why? When coding I think of some point, usually small, don't want to forget it but don't want to interrupt the flow otherwise so just put in a TODO and continue on. With my favorite text editor (KEdit) the TODOs are super easy to find later.

"Three developers"? That's you! To do the work of three developers, you just need to do it yourself, and, and assuming you have the technical 'skills', that is, have read and worked with enough of the documentation of whatever you are using, classes, TCP/IP, SQL, HTML, CSS, programming languages, system management, which as founder you should know, your time to do the development might be only twice as long as the three developers would take since you would have less time in management. In either salary or equity, hiring the developers is expensive.

"A designer"? Unless you are seeking some super gorgeous, artistic site or app, just borrow 'design' ideas from examples of the work of others and do the design yourself.

"Business major"? I've been in business and been an MBA prof -- I'm missing why a startup needs a business major! Once you are live or about ready to go live, you may need some or all of a bookkeeper, accountant, payroll service, lawyer, business insurance agent, maybe a few more -- Chinese carryout for lunches.



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