Remove Angel Investor Remove Coder Remove Customer Development Remove Open Source
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Women 2.0 ยป FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. Get to know brilliant coders, build long-term relationships, and demonstrate that you can add value.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). I don't think it's enough to have a business guy and a coder.