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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Danny and Ynon in a way will switch roles.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. The problem with non-technical founders is that they don’t know what they don’t know, until they’re in way too deep. Enterprise. CrunchBase.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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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. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Real Advice.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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Twitter Link Roundup #157 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link]. Native Ads In 2013: Scale, Headlines As Banners, Mobile, Samsung, And Yahoo | TechCrunch - [link]. 75 Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2012 | Creative Nerds – [link].

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

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Search for: July 3rd, 2012. Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. 3 Responses to “Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors” Darrin says: July 8, 2012 at 11:59 am. Nick Wade says: July 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm.