Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. His inability to attract a co-founder who could code was a troubling sign. Customer Discovery. And second, learn how to code.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses.
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The Next Web
MARCH 30, 2013
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jason Cartwright , the founder of Potato , a 65-person Web development agency headquartered in London. The right developer on the other hand can start you off on the correct footing, pivot any incorrect tech choices, network to pull in more skilled coders and motivate them to do their best work.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2017
Look out if they have received funding: Seed funding – means they are just starting out = less people in the company = higher likelihood of working closely with the founder. While waiting, understand their business model and polish up on your skills for the job. Be a founder of something. Side note: startup not as stable.
The Next Web
JANUARY 27, 2013
One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. One of the darkest moments as an entrepreneur for me was to have co-founders leave the company.
blog.captainrecruiter.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)
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