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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? “After reading your post on Why Founders Should Know How to Code it looks like web/mobile startups have it easy. Trying to figure out what the right set of co-founders isn’t so clear. Are We Missing A Founder?

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The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. When founders discover their assumptions are wrong, as they inevitably will, the result isn’t a crisis , it’s a learning event called a pivot — and an opportunity to update the business model.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Act Like a Startup. This never ends well.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. Urban legends.

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Workstreamer Launches Public Beta

Austin Startup

Given the expanded user base that will surely come starting today, I’m sure the team of agile developers will have even more great ideas to implement in Workstreamer. Suaad Sait has joined the team, the former founder and CEO of Reachforce, and previously an executive with Pervasive, Motive, Ventix, and Dazel.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Filed under: Customer Development , Technology , Vertical Markets « Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making Am I a Founder? Customer Development Steps – How do we iterate with customers? Time to Market – How long?

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