Stop me if you have heard this before. I'm a business guy, not so good on the technical side, and I've got a great idea that I need a programmer to develop for me. I don't have any funding yet, but I've got a really nebulous connection to the venture capital world. That being said, I'll start paying you once we get funding or we start making a lot of money from the project! All you need to do is write a Facebook clone in 2 weeks. For a smart programmer like you, that should be easy, right? I'll also cut you in on a little bit of equity. Let's get started!
This kind of shit lands on Craigslist so often that it makes you wonder what they actually teach at business schools (Side note: I recently learned that if you earn $1, you get to multiply that by about 20, the price/earnings ratio, meaning that the $1 you've earned is actually $20 in value. Makes me wonder how MBAs do differential equations.). It's time for we programmers to take revenge.
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