YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success. In two of these three phases – the first and third – volumes of helpful information and numerous organizations are readily available to help guide and support founders of startups. Go-to-Scale.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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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. Great so far, right?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He’s also the co-author of a new book launching in June 2022 — Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business. 21:56] Where are your favorite places to find AI tools? [23:15]

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

He is the founder of Nudge, an analytics company, that was a commercialized product from his agency. Prior to Nudge, he co-founded an agency in New Zealand that was the 8th fastest-growing business at the time. Nudge helps you measure the performance of your digital properties through the lens of what people are paying attention to.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Find a link to the full article, with suggested days, times, and other helpful facts, in the Small Business Section below. 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]. What Makes People Happy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder. I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. Startup and Founder Backgrounds This is a cold email.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, reminds us that the business of launching a clothing brand is as important as the artistry: Fashion is amazing in the way it balances art and commerce, but it’s a business. Many people want to start a clothing brand or clothing line. After all, how difficult could it be?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They translate business speak into technical terms and also explain technology solutions in layman’s terms. As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

Recently many of us dedicated our Saturday attending and presenting at the biannual un-conference, ProductCamp. I personally am a conferences nerd. I enjoy panels, lectures, and listening to the perspective of other people. This weekend at ProductCamp was no different. ProductCamp was right up my alley. link] How to accomplish: 1.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

To explore these, I’ll give you two examples: one, Shep , a browser extension travel tool for SMEs from my company, and the other from Litr.ly, a made-up company that allows writers (copy, technical, editorial, fiction, etc.) you are sunk. Your quick answer to The Question of “What does your company do?” can be framed in a variety of ways.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

From a development and operations perspective, the common element in successful software businesses seems to be the technical leader. Their primary characteristics are deep technical skills and a hacker mentality ( about the word hacker ). They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I did a lot of technical interviewing. I started my business out of necessity, after being fired from the position as CFO of a restaurant group I was forced to find a way to support my family of 4. Each business has a story. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. Photo Credit: David Moise. I led projects.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

The only thing without a doubt that holds true for everyone learning to program is that you must deeply want to learn. Need to learn. If you go about passively learning then you'll get frustrated and give up as soon as it starts get tough. A few hours a week isn't going to cut it. During your off hours won't be enough. I hope you enjoy it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?"

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. .” 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31]

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary. Note: there is video from this event, but its not online yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2023

Whether you are a new young Gen-Z entrepreneur, or a Baby Boomer who is struggling to stay relevant, here is a quick guide to some of the changes that Schawbel sees in the workplace requiring self-promotion, that I have updated for entrepreneurs: Your startup “idea” is just the beginning. Your reputation is the single greatest asset you have.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. Pros: The search bar makes finding info a snap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Having had a few weeks to recover from the adrenaline crash, I find myself full of gratitude. I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. These posts are the result. Erin Turner helped organize the dozens of simulcast venues.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. There are a lot of aspects to this ranging from finding your first paying customer and validating your idea to putting together a minimum viable product that lets you learn about your business as quickly as possible. Viewed times.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. Startups are companies. Startups aspire to become big companies. Therefore, startups should have departments. Why do companies have departments?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. Just a quick history refresher.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. What is an Ultra Light Startup? Who We Are. Our Technology Platform. How To Get In For Free. Media Partners. Community Partners. Sponsorship. Office Hours. Apply to Pitch (New York). Pitch Application Example. How to Get Selected to Pitch. How To Pitch. Future Energy. Application Form.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

3) Co-create content with other authorities in your niche market. 6 Key Tactics Agencies Use to Help Local Businesses Rank Higher in Google written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing, and today’s guest post is from Dan Olson – Enjoy!

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