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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. You get the point.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

The funny thing about stats is that you can basically come up with a stat to justify any argument or position--and the whole female founders in tech conversation has a ton of numbers that people put out there as various types of proof and justification, or blame. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. This can enable chatbots to have a conversation with people. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo. Classic Computers- Hardware.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

Well I couldn’t ask for a better conversation to kick off a conference. Our conversation also had me thinking about our other clients, potential clients and the firms that decided to go a different direction. There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. I also wrote an entire series on the topic of Startup Boards if you want to do any more reading that link has several articles you can dig into.

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How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.

This is going to be BIG.

If it turned out that the best experiences I''ve had as an investor come from knowing someone a long time, I might go to events that are more around a specialty, like software development or design. The tricky question is whether these early conversations should count as fundraising. Venture Capital & Technology'