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CTO Founders / Cofounders

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So why do inexperienced (as entrepreneurs), ultra-skilled CTOs fall into the trap of engaging a business partner too early? Knowing a lot of CTO founders, I can tell you that Roger is fairly accurate in his assessment of the desire of CTOs to find the right cofounder to be the business side. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie?

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today!

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

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Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em? Finding Startup Co-Founders You would hope that networking events would be a good way to find suitable folks.

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Entreprenuer Network

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Los Angeles Startup Events

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Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. You Can’t Sign This Deal. It says what?!”).