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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. But most of the time it is just that?—?hope,

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We have a CTO, and so can you!

www.aaronkharris.com

Im a private tutor on Tutorspree Text Aug 23, 2010 @ 9:08 pm Permalink We have a CTO, and so can you! I was told that finding a CTO/technical co-founder in NYC was about as easy as climbing Everest with one leg, no O2, and carrying a dead elephant. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line at akharris at gmail dot com. startupcto

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. Investors Companies. So what does this teach us?

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Dave McClure • Jan 9, 2011 Home run Saul.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20).

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Whilst the average tech entrepreneur may lack some of the more business relationship, networking, and sales/marketing skills – they still need to have an entrepreneurial mindset, understand financial models, market factors, and how the business ultimately makes money. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. That prototype is now something I use everyday to run my recruiting business. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. In 2008 I was first time startup founder with no cash.