David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. – 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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. I could spend that time on Facebook, but at the cost of not writing. During this period, I helped Hewlett-Packard save on the order of ten million dollars a year on customer support costs, roughly a 100x return on my salary.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link]. Don’t roadblock – Make it dead-simple for your advisor to help you | QUIBB - [link]. Why a jewelry startup had to build enterprise software to survive - [link]. Software that keeps an eye on Grandma - [link].

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Dan: Member Desk is a hosted membership site software. The one thing that you might be able to do is outsource the development costs of it.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. We always used advisors or mentors to vet numbers and the block and tackle items within a pitch.”.

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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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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

By focusing on the deployment of new applications, 5G technology, and other innovative solutions, Drivenets and its proprietary Network Cloud software solution will provide for accelerated economic profitability, innovation, and high-level growth. It provides clients with full insight into precisely what is happening in their code.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. Startups die due to a variety of causes. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. Of course, you could also calculate your price based on the cost of materials and manufacture. At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Jason: Okay, so that’s a very small company in which the CEO is pulling out the credit card for meeting software because even people with a hundred people, the CEO is not the person pulling out a credit card for the meeting software. I don’t care about what the software looks like yet. Edwin: I tend to disagree.

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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. Surprised?).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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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. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" If you can't find what you are looking for, hit enter or click "Add Question" again.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Knowledge of exactly what’s strong and weak about the code base. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I think you’d find yourself, you’re going to drop a lot of people when you instantly mention, ‘This costs money.’ I actually sold lots of software to Intuit at Smart Bear. Boy, I’m pretty happy with this new software stuff we’re using here.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. It will probably involve writing some software, but fortunately we can do that.

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Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”. All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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