View from Seed

MAY 24, 2017

Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg.

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The Next Web

MARCH 9, 2014

Jason Freedman is the co-founder of 42Floors , making it easy for everyone to rent office space. A couple of times a founder was in such a salesy mode that we both knew he was b *g his answers, but he refused to show anything other than total confidence. He’s a two-time Y Combinator alum and blogs regularly on humbledMBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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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.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

Vivek Ravisankar is the co-founder of Y Combinator alumnus, HackerRank , a platform for coding contests used by programmers to hone their skills and a tool for companies to streamline their own recruiting process. To put it bluntly, software is eating the world and everyone needs coders. Learn to look past a resume.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. Your potential customer base grows as tools become simpler and easier to use, even non-coders can build a professional website with minimal effort. Viktor Marohni? Does that apply in software world?

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Techcofounder If you’re starting a company, chances are you either are a coder or need a coder. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2011

Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake ) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku ), I was a mentor to those teams. In some cases, coders will go into another room than the designers and the team leader. Sixteen startups were created during the weekend. Everyone in the Same Room.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. Glad you asked.

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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. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. Also, the sense of camaraderie and "leave no founder behind" mission of FI is excellent. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Both me and my co-founder, Abhishek, met in first year of collage (IIT-Bombay). Failing to find a coder whose vision aligned with ours, we ended up coding ActivityDeck website ourselves. I haven’t looked back since. Thanks to Garren Heye, Ruckworks. #2 2 – To Connect Students and Teachers. A mobile app is on its way.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The decision was primarily being driven by myself and one of my co-workers named Mary. If you are the founder or "chief geek" in your small ISV, take a careful, honest, and objective look at yourself. It really is true that the best coders are gifted with an aptitude. Is this candidate one of those "10X coders"?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Luckily for me, my co-founders eventually prevailed and we went on to build a product that customers actually wanted. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. But code written that doesnt help the company succeed is a sunk cost.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2020

Sandra Upson/Wired – The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder. The only hesitation over including this beautifully written profile is the flinch I sometimes have when a protagonist isn’t in the position to give consent (Lee, the third founder of Cloudflare who is suffering from dementia).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? more) Sign up for free to read the full text.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard has had tremendous impact on the world of AI entrepreneurship. Jeremy Howard : Sure. Good Lord, no.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

Still a teen, this self-taught coder co-founded Mozilla Firefox and sparked a global phenomenon. Susan Ford Collins is a sought-after speaker, trainer, and the founder of The Technology of Success. His psychologist mother Abby remembers: Blake spent hours in his room. ”We Is your organization? Who do you know who is stuck?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 13, 2014

Aron Susman, co-founder of The Square Foot, offers advice on vetting vendors. They started looking for website coders and settled on a company they liked. These days, we Google everything. From dinner recipes to peculiar medical problems, a search engine holds the answers. “We had to start all over.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2017

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) July 24, 2017. Common part-time remote job titles include tutor, writer, coder, interpreter, editor, and customer service representative. FlexJobs' Founder & CEO Sara Sutton Fell has also launched two additional partner sites, Remote.co currently work part-time.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. When I started, I had two other co-founders, but I was the only one able to work full time in the business while the other two could only commit on weekends. Let me guess. Sometimes, friends cannot be partners, just like how sometimes friends can’t be lovers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Co- Founders, Melinda Briana Epler and Wayne Sutton, were in Austin this week for the tech heavy SXSW Festival, but also hosted a Tech Inclusion event at Galvanize, one of their sponsors for Change Catalyst, at the Galvanize Austin office.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. Neither is true – they just have their incentives all messed up. You can’t change the underlying incentives of this situation by getting better at any one activity.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Fire her and morale will take a big hit.

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hippoland.tumblr.com

AUGUST 16, 2012

Elizabeth Yin: co-founder of LaunchBit. Coder/marketer from the Bay Area. My co-founder Jennifer and I had decided that I would do all the hustling, and I’d only rope her into meetings if necessary. Honestly, I have no idea how single founders do this.) Hippoland: adventures abound! 16 8 / 2012.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Jeremy (co-owner of DotNetInvoice) is doing some final testing on our demo server and runs into a problem. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Fast forward 2 months to launch day (in the meantime we implemented a number of other features). License file?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. They might be working from home or working from a small co-working space, and they really want to mature and grow up into a real business.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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