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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. Don’t make everyone a founder.

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Why Startups Die

The Next Web

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital. 5/ The Crowd Saw X, We Saw Y: One of my favorite quotes about startups and technology comes from Instagram’s co-founder Systrom.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.