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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I think Visual Sciences stayed in stealth too long, though?—?and

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Fellow VCs: Here’s Where to Invest $1B+

Genuine VC

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

June 25, 2012. The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

This was exceptionally hard for a candidate to prepare for in the early days because our company was in stealth-mode, as I wrote about in this post. io , where I’ve been writing about primarily entrepreneurship since 2012. Years after writing this post I was having lunch with John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods.