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6 Key Leaders Every Technical Startup Needs To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The financial suit.

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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

The simple answer is to find a business partner, not an “implementer,” who already has the technical experience you need, and is willing and able to run that side of the business. If you are an entrepreneur, like Andrew Mason , CEO of Groupon, with a degree in music and no technical business partner to be found, your job is a bit harder.

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

The simple answer is to find a business partner, not an “implementer,” who already has the technical experience you need, and is willing and able to run that side of the business. If you are an entrepreneur, like Andrew Mason , CEO of Groupon, with a degree in music and no technical business partner to be found, your job is a bit harder.

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Growth Acceleration Partners Says Diversity and Inclusion is Key to its Success as a Custom Software Developer

SiliconHills

Instead of seeking venture capital, Joyce Durst, Co-Founder, and CEO of Growth Acceleration Partners decided to bootstrap the software development company. Growth Acceleration Partners, known as GAP, offers analytics, cloud, mobile and QA services. At that company, she raised […].

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6 Team Members Who Will Make Your New Venture Robust

Startup Professionals Musings

He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The financial suit.

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10 Startup Founder Decisions That Have No Good Answer

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. Should you start a company solo or find co-founders to help you? The co-founder relationship dilemma.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #8: Bootstrap or VC?

Austin Startup

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Bootstrap Austin, started by Bijoy Goswami. The original Bootstrap Austin was truly special and Bijoy did an amazing job bringing together some terrific entrepreneurs.