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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. While I have all this great feedback on my visual mockups I can’t iterate my product.

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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Building an infrastructure to automate internal testing allows companies to develop a deployable, scalable, working prototype to the market– and work with customers to meet their needs. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. At Women 2.0

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Compounding the problem, founders often ramp up expenses and their burn rate as they collect fundraising debt, always expecting better performance to be just around the corner, and being prepared for the next round. .

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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