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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. 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.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eric, love the blog.

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

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With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. But such a best-case approach is hazardous.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.