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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by Donovan Janus, founder of 17hats. Don’t expect pinpoint software to solve your problems. Join a co-working space or camp out in a coffee shop. Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. What can technology take off your plate?

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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

Park began to write software to try to speed up the process, automating countless manual steps and creating a user interface that would be simple enough for doctors and medical clerks to use. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services. Athenahealth's Culture.

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Uh-oh! Do you have a “sitcom” startup?

Up and Running

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Sold to Yahoo!

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