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[Review] Hatching Twitter

YoungUpstarts

That winning announcement would catapult them into the Internet big league – whether the service, or the co-founders behind it, were ready or not. “ Hatching Twitter ” is as much as an exposé on Twitter’s founding as it is a cautionary tale for anyone in the startup scene.

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The Magic Midnight Mind Meld

Both Sides of the Table

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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Finding Founders

shelfmade.wordpress.com

ShelfMade Home About Best Article You’ll Ever Read and Not Understand Finding Non-Tech Founders October 3, 2007.5:27 Are people that you meet (point 2) passing you the names of programmers? If your idea sounds anything like “A social network for &# you probably need something else. Develop a Remarkable Idea.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. Let’s play the name game once more.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?