David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

. – Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. All of the strategies above have very modest fixed cost.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. ” But then again she hails from the agency world where “everything was driven by fixed-cost projects hard deadlines and they did a huge disservice to the software industry. Our developers are becoming more well known.”

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Companies in certain sectors (e.g.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link]. 5 things a non-technical founder can do - [link]. What Makes People Happy? The Economics of Happiness | The Art of Manliness - [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. So maybe if you found the smaller bands who are also really good at communicating with their community. The one thing that you might be able to do is outsource the development costs of it. Jason: Right.

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shelfmade.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

27 am Finding Founders Jump to Comments One of the most common questions that I hear at networking events and on social news sites deals with finding a co-founder with hacking skills, specifically when the person asking the question isn’t technical. Look at these 2 ways of approaching a potential cofounder. Great post.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Advisor. ); STARTUP. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., ); Login or signup. Welcome | Logout. Forgot login ? Tools & Research.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Of course, you could also calculate your price based on the cost of materials and manufacture. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. They even have a community and a marketplace. Your price positions you in the market.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. The sunk costs trap. Now I have.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. This panel will show how having a validation pipeline can reduce costs and increase insight while making digital transformation faster. Venture Associate at Capital Factory Emily Reiser , PhD.,

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. What’s more, the sales and marketing costs of acquiring listings are expensive. Eric also showed deep technology capabilities, proving our technical chops. It’s more important to have the right person say yes than it is to have everyone say yes.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ). One of the discussion groups that I led with Simon Levene (heads up Corp Dev in Europe for Yahoo and Yair Goldfinger (founder and CTO of ICQ and Dotomi) was titled "Are Internet VCs Dead."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Well I appreciate that.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. Finding your cofounders [link] [.] Does that make sense? larken: Ortaklar?n?z?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark.

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