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Preferably official webcasts, but any kind of video of the lecture would be good. I've done some googling and couldn't find any, but maybe someone in this crowd has a source.

Also a related question, for anyone who is following the course by notes posted online and not attending the class. Are the online notes a worthwhile read?

Thanks

Hi HN, I'm in a sticky situation now and thought I'd reach out and see what you would do.

I did about 3 months of work (and managed several contractor jobs) as a technical cofounder for this guy and the new direction for his existing company. Our original verbal agreement was very explicit that I would be an equity partner. Even though I pushed several times for formalizing our agreement, he never had time for it and we never had a contract (I should have stopped work after this red flag). Now, he has decided to have someone else handle the development aspect, which I'm OK with and in agreement because over the course of the 3 months that I worked for him, he departed from the strategy and vision that inspired me to join. While I am OK with not continuing the work for him, there are two "loose ends": first, he is avoiding reimbursing me for the contractor work that I paid for (and normally he has been reimbursing me); second, I feel that my own 3 months of work ought to receive some compensation - and it probably makes more sense for that to be in the form of cash rather than equity. So now I am out over $5,000 of reimbursement, and also have received absolutely nothing for my 3 months of time.

Any advice? What would you do? I already know there are lots of things I should have done to prevent getting in this situation in the first place.

By the way, word of advice for my fellow HN... the guy was super nice, friendly, and easy-going, which made it easy to not recognize the red flags (no contract, delaying contract, slow reimbursement). Don't get into my situation.

Hi HN, sorry if the question has been asked before, I'm kind of new here. I'm wondering where you (i.e. reader of HN) go to find part-time or contract work. I have been hiring using odesk, elance, rentacoder, and guru, but generally speaking I've only found average designers and coders, not the "look at the web app that I made over the weekend" type of people.

Any help? Thanks

Hi HN, I was wondering if anyone has good recommendations for platforms to build data driven business-oriented mobile apps on. Or, is native the best way to go? Or, is HTML5 the best way to go?

Thanks in advance, sorry for the naivety.

Hi HN, I know most people here are programmers, and also sorry to use the term web 2.0 if that offends anyone. I've been having a hard time finding a part time graphic designer who can design clean, stylish stuff. Most of the portfolios that I get back from sites like craigslist are very old school, they look like they're from templates. Here's a random example of one I consider to be pretty good: http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/index.php

Can anyone recommend a place to find good graphic designers? Someone suggested that I use 99 designs or another crowdsource site to find someone I can work with, and then hire them part time. Thanks

Also if there is a better way to phrase it than "web 2.0 graphic design", please let me know. Thanks

I'm looking for a web-based project management suite that works well for software development projects. I just started using BaseCamp, and I'm really not impressed with the user interface. For example, I just added my to-do list, and I can't even view a description/comment without opening it up. Anyway, my point is, has anyone else found a better PM software?

I've been a fan of Fogbugz for a long time, but I have a team of 5, and can't afford $125/month unfortunately.