davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Still, you can use accounting software or work with a tax professional. Innovation can be a product, design, or a process of doing things to solve a technical problem. Industrial Design – Rights given for a product’s aesthetic or ornamental aspect. Develop a founders agreement. Get business insurance.

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Up and Running

JULY 8, 2016

If you’ve ever tried to start a software company or build a mobile app, you’ve probably come across these options for getting it out there: Find a technical cofounder. You need someone who is very technically capable, has time to work on the project, and has a passion for what you’re doing.

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Programming Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review 74

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class.

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Lean Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder Channel 120

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link]. A co-founder’s guide to Biz Dev | Soundboy – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Cofounder 107

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. For companies to build onboarding for engineers, for example, to be productive, they need to designate, train and support the managers who are hiring them; essentially, training the trainers on how to be more productive and aligned with company goals. At Women 2.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Attention founders: Here’s how you respond to an unfair post about your company - [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 104

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was all technical. I had this path to choose.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Skimping on design. Your design will be the first look at your execution. You should be splurging on design, branding, etc. because no single other factor will impact your conversions more than having a good design. Get it designed well, then go from there. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Cofounder Technical Review 145

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: And to me, trying to replace someone’s to-do software or their actual organization software? Jason: Okay.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. Challenges I started by asking the founders in the room to tell me some of the challenges they have working with developers. Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs. Changing Your Mind.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. On the extreme opposite end are rapid iteration businesses like software or fashion. The company was doomed.

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Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. It’s a Web and mobile apps design and development company that partners with others of various sizes in order to help them make the important decisions that they might not be qualified to decide themselves.

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Developer Technical Cofounder Omaha Cofounder 114

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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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). Thanks to Virginie Carmichael, CityGirl’s Design. #10 . #2 – More Opportunities. Photo Credit: Mella Barnes. 6 – More Women in Tech.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. The software was idiot proof.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes.

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Web Technical Review Developer Cofounder 40

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. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. and Google.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. UI Designer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager.

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Portland Oregon Technical Cofounder Startup 46

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. When people ask about how to reconcile metrics with interaction design, usability testing, or in-person customer interviews, this is the issue they are really talking about. Expo, never fear.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.

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Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. Not only will this impact how you design the product, but also where you distribute it, and how you market it. He calls this “the secret of the market.”.

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Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete Naming 60

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

In the last batch of startups we funded, we had several founders who said theyd thought of applying before, but werent sure and got jobs instead. In essense, let the market design the product. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54