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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

Cofounder 101
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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

And make sure to read our recent posts with advice from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on his advice to entrepreneurs as well ( here and here ). The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# How about some other teams?

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. Needless to say, it worked well for him! ASO like a pro.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.

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How Virtual Assistants Are Reshaping The Business Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

He is an “underground” serial entrepreneur, investor, and outsourcing expert. Key Takeaway: Joe shares his story as an underground entrepreneur with his unique perspective on building businesses in silence, without seeking the spotlight or constantly promoting themselves. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.