nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Reddit - Specifically the programming, business and startup sub-redits. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. 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. Tell me a bit about your background. It sounds interesting.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Techcofounder If you’re starting a company, chances are you either are a coder or need a coder. Coders can create anonymous profiles and accept solicitations to work on projects or join a team. Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

So in this age of uncertainty how should someone react who simply wants to collect a few greenbacks in exchange for their brilliant programming acumen? Surprisingly enough, articles for programming magazines can bring in several hundred to a thousand dollars each, depending on length. Boring programming jobs? You betcha.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

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. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Glad you asked.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

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. They are perhaps ten times more productive than average coders. Granted, a lot of these coders are driven purely out of hatred for Microsoft.

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Rob Go

APRIL 26, 2012

And I love programs that kindle the interest of youth in this direction (especially for groups under-represented in technology). We have one portfolio that is led by a female founder, with hopefully many more in the not too distant future.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2013

They’re artists, designers, engineers, crafters, coders, and – oh yeah – high schoolers. Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart, founders of the innovative t-shirt company Threadless, were barely out of their teens when they founded the enterprise. have youth entrepreneurship programs (ex. That’s right, teenagers.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Femgineer Coder. If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Sweat equity or salary?

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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. for Harvard Business Revie.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

We didn’t know what was going on in there at first, but when he started requesting programming books for his birthday, we began to get an idea.” Still a teen, this self-taught coder co-founded Mozilla Firefox and sparked a global phenomenon. His psychologist mother Abby remembers: Blake spent hours in his room. ”We

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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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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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. Troy Dean: So WP Elevation is an online business coaching program and community specifically for WordPress consultants.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Here’s my top 5 strengths: [link] Ideation / Learner / Achiever / Analytical / Intellection Everyone at our office (plus my wife) has gone through the program and we know each other’s strengths. Except it is not.

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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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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. From day one, the founders believe that their vision can change the world. It is not a “jobs program” for the local populace. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.

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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. Rockstar v.

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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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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? Non of this academic stuff.

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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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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. Thanks for sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

One of my personal heroes, Kent Beck , the creator of Extreme Programming and a truly wonderful writer was logged in and twittering, too. How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? "unknown problem" was an eye opener for me. What a thrill. but Im always short in hands.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. The very last comment takes the cake, however, and is a fitting close. Sure, everyone says that.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

The programming language is important because we provide the source code with every purchase…which created one heck of a mess for us a few weeks back. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. We launched version 2.5 Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. Founders need to see eye-to-eye or things will be very difficult. Speak human! (0:46:20)

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. You sound like a great client to deal with for a programming company. Bless you, chile!

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! He’s a coder himself and believes that any problem can be solved. He then thought, let’s rethink how we share and view the whole media.

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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?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. I cannot sink any more money into a program that is still having community problems. That is what company founders and staff do not get. " I couldn't agree more. No gain without pain. No of course not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. I have similar stories about computer programming from my early days. Jeremy Howard : Sure.

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