www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Find out how startups and corporations can partner to achieve results that truly benefit both sides. Four successful female company founders?—?Shayna Shayna Brown, Founder of Chez Boom Audio, Jan Ryan, Exec. Vote ] 2. Learn how to focus your data objectives and build a data-rich culture based on applied use cases.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Lecture 3: Before The Startup.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. During this period, I helped Hewlett-Packard save on the order of ten million dollars a year on customer support costs, roughly a 100x return on my salary. OK, I drew a salary while at HP.) Enter the Craziness.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. “But 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. Cartoon by Andertoons. Cartoon by Andertoons.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. For example, consider public relations.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner. 16- Freedom to think BIG.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. Our vision was that just as the PC was revolutionizing the business market, we were going to do the same for scientists and engineers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 20, 2010

It was clear that he had no memory of a phone conversation my partner and I have never forgotten. This partner lived up to his reputation and helped us hire an experienced, world-class CEO from a large consulting company that we thought would be the guy to take our company to a billion dollars (think Internet-bubble Kool-aid.).

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., Head of Engineering: Strong experience with B2C businesses. Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. How quickly you could start.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We didnt put strict specifications on what "technical" means, but the general idea was people who may qualify as a technical cofounder of an internet/tech startup and in particular, those who have been pitched ideas before. Viewed times.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It was definitely a huge leap to leave the corporate world (and the salary and security that comes with it) and start a company. By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group. As the founder, you’re the number one sales person of the company and it is not a function you can outsource right away.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. You can’t just overpay every person’s salary.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. This covers one of the most common situations I encounter: For a pre-funding web startup whose team includes only a non-technical cofounder, how much equity should an incoming technical cofounder get?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Still in business today and run by my co-founder. It was then profitable, but of course we weren’t paying ourselves salaries (unlike my consulting gig). I decided I wasn’t passionate about running an ad-supported business and sold my stake to my co-founder. The third was InSite Solutions.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Nathan Parcells is co-founder and CMO of InternMatch , an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. Most large organizations are currently offering these competitions, partnering, or sponsoring them to ensure they are first in line for top contenders. Competitive compensation rates.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2015

Goldberg, founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and co-author of “ A Whole New Engineer ” . Goldberg, Founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc., by David E. Universities are as outmoded as buggy whips.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 12 – It was Just Time.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

According to the same study, 80% of its customers’ video plays comes from its personalized recommendation engine. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Second-party historical data.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Lastly, gather feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Examine the issues and vote your conscience, yes, but don’t take your eyes off the creativity, hard work, and proven business practices that keep the entrepreneurial engine humming along. Back in 1986 when Barefoot was founded, my cofounder Bonnie Harvey and I pioneered what we call “worthy cause marketing” (WCM).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Dave Flemming, Dave Flemming Speaks. #2 2 – To Help People. Image Credit : Mike Samson.

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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. My marketing site is hosted at WP Engines so … Jason: No wonder you get so much traffic. Jason: Yeah. I already write agendas.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010). Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

Companies that commit to their teams succeed because they attract hard-to-recruit talent like Brianna Crab , a data engineer at Capital One. Crab says she was swayed by the company’s culture of continuous learning — not the perks or salary — proving that employee development hones the sharpest competitive edge companies can buy.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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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. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager.

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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. If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20

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