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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# So, why should they pick you?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. were more distributed.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder – a software engineer who works for no cash – to help me build my dream website.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2018

by Ben Hoffman, co-founder of CityHUNT. Continuously hiring new employees is a huge expense for a company. A 2017 report from Employee Benefit News (EBN) asserts that on average, it will cost the employer 33 percent of the employee’s annual salary to replace his or her position. Do Your Due Diligence When Hiring.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2019

by Blake Heron, founder of Skills Co. The new wave of opportunities has brought in good news for everyone around the world with average salaries continuously increasing since the last decade. Are you ready to ride this new wave of progress? Don’t believe us? Here is a fact that will change your perception.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

By Omer Tadjer, CEO and co-founder of Comeet. Hiring mistakes and turnover can be costly for any organization; according to the Society for Human Resource Management , it can cost as much as half of an employee’s annual salary to replace them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. It’s your baby. So give up the CEO role?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

By the way, the salary, which was a good salary, was $27,000 entry salary, and engineers were paid $31,000 to $35,000. [00:10:30] You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. 00:10:30] DEREK: So that was significant.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. However, hiring the wrong salespeople costs dearly in time and treasure. Furthermore, prospects will want to speak to founders that have high domain knowledge and the authority to reduce the fear of risk associated with a young company.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. How could you search and identify the companies that would hire you? You need to start by figuring out who your suspects are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required. If you do decide to outsource, build the relationship first, and manage the project carefully.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

by Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly. Having a simplified training process not only makes hiring easier, but helps your employees feel more confident in their employers. Hiring a social media management expert isn’t necessary when businesses use the Perch app. Training software: Lesson.ly.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Like a lot, a lot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. In all outsourcing cases, a detailed specification is required. If you do decide to outsource, build the relationship first, and manage the project carefully.

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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. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2022

If you as the founder, or other members your executive team are chronic complainers, the disease will spread rapidly through the rest of the organization. Use the hiring process effectively. Too many startups give short shrift to the hiring process, because they are too busy, don’t want to pay market prices, or have no experience.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Organize events in your vertical.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Developer salaries are high and often out of reach for a startup business. This is one-time fee, rather than an ongoing salary.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

No salaries followed by low salaries. ” Almost all startup founders experience a deep and prolonged sadness after selling their company , even when the sale is an outrageous success. The answer is important and fundamental for all startup founders, whether or not they ever intend to sell their company.

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Babbling VC

AUGUST 9, 2011

You've heard the clichéd statement made a million times: "A players hire A players. B players hire C players!" I couldn't agree with this more but want to make a point that actually addresses a problem before hiring even starts. In the current market, hiring has become increasingly difficult. Don't believe it.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2015

by Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly. Having a simplified training process not only makes hiring easier, but helps your employees feel more confident in their employers. Hiring a social media management expert isn’t necessary when businesses use the Perch app. Social media monitoring: Perch.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

While he kept bringing the conversation back to their big valuation I tried to steer the conversation back to how they were going to deal with: training the influx of new hires – in both culture and job specific tasks. retaining their existing hires who were working for intern-like salaries with little equity.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2014

Working at Netegrity was an invaluable learning experience, and the salary and benefits gave me a level of disposable income and financial security that I’d never had as an independent consultant. If you’re not a strong software developer, for example, hire someone or bring on a co-founder who is.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

4- Find the right relationships Photo Credit: Mike Pio Roda “Never leave money on the table” might seem tempting, but it's not always the wisest path for founders and business owners. 5- Hire the experts Photo Credit: Rachel Eigen “You can do it all starting small” — B.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

If you are developing your startup with a partner or co-founder, failing to create a detailed business partnership can cause serious legal ramifications later. Rights to buy back shares of co-founders if they decide to leave the company. Salary entitlements.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2022

Like Paul Graham , founder of Y-Combinator, said a long time ago, I see startups succeed or fail every day based primarily on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, but as a predictor of success it’s a rounding error compared to the founders. It's hard to hire good people because they already have a job.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. We ultimately hired an agency since we decided the additional placements they would get would cover the cost of hiring them. Crowdfunding has become common place for new products and new brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. Each hire is tremendously important to the lifeblood of the organization, and I made sure to have a year’s worth of salary in the bank before bringing a new co-worker on board. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. I knew that meant he wouldn’t come back.

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Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. On average, it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to replace them. Hire the right people. It wasn’t what I was hired to do, but it was liberating.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Kelsey Meyer , Influence & Co. Hire T-Shaped People. Cross Train Members.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

For startups, hiring has always been tricky and there are many proverbial mistakes that can be avoided if you only planned ahead. In this article, we examine five ways startups can botch their hiring process by simply not knowing how to find out more about a person. Hiring For The Culture of the Company, Instead of The Skill Set.

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