Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

That’s why I recommend that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one expert on the technical solution, and the other with business model experience. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Match with competitor prices and market demographics.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes. Yuri, one of the things that you make you a great founder is that you have insight others don’t. A Pivot a Week. he’d declare.

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Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2018

by Bruce Hartman , founder of Gideon Partners and author of “ Jesus & Co.: Hire People that Match the Culture the Business Needs. Hiring people who match the required culture and have the ability to succeed is the most part of any hiring decision. He is the author of a new book called Jesus & Co.:

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Advisory Board Startup Cofounder Matching 100

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit – the match between what you’re building and who will buy it.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. Work with people you love.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011.

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Advisory Board Employee Cofounder Matching 60

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. The match-up of meaty pieces and the ticker seems to be working, at least for me.

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Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45