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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and Moreā€¦.

Hunter Walker

Holiday weekend here in the US means links for you to read Playing Different (Stupider) Games The Other End Of The Valuation Stick [Kyle Harrison, Contrary Capital] – Kyle puts out a new essay (almost) every Saturday and I really enjoy his consistent and clear eyed POV on venture capital. The former start the work.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

Capital Factory has an early investor in many of the most successful startups in Texas over the past decade including Aceable , AlertMedia , BigCommerce , Coder , data.world , ICON , Spredfast , Storable , WP Engine and ZenBusiness.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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In another example, at GroupSpaces we use services from Recurly to power our subscription billing engine and Assistly to power our helpdesk, which helped us to get up and running within a day. Nic Brisbourne on venture capital. This should be a great example for anyone struggling to understand the concept of cloud computing.

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Why Governments Donā€™t Get Startups

Steve Blank

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because itā€™s a passion. Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors ā€“ venture capitalists.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

There are no tours of companies or venture capital firms. Walk to downtown Palo Alto at lunchtime, and see the excited engineers ranting to one another on their way to lunch. Park on the circle and take a walking tour of the campus and then head to the science and engineering quad.

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Women 2.0 Ā» FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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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. Then, whatā€™s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?