ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

These will receive $50k in seed funding, free office space and credits toward other useful services as part of their acceleration program. We wrote about their innovative program last fall. Most have felt the program worthwhile and given them a jumpstart on their operations. Sponsor. "Our

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. I have an interesting project idea, but it requires seasoned programming skills. I have a related dilemma.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. In fact, startups are at the perfect spot to implement a rock solid program at their foundational level, and then eventually grow it from there.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Accounting?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. Stephen is a Capital Factory Mentor, serial entrepreneur and former General Partner at Austin Ventures.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

My father created a self-defense program for women in the early 1980’s, so I grew up very aware of violence against women and that the responsibility of staying out of harm’s way was completely put on women. So, in October of 2016, I resigned from my job at an ad agency and have been working on Every Two Minutes full time ever since.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

A few years ago, a friend of mine who was coming off an EIR gig at a well-known venture fund in Boston ended up joining one of my portfolio companies part-time as a technical advisor / interim CTO. Repeat founders make worthy partners, provided they recognize one truth. But I find it definitely hurts to do it too early.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Startup School – Professional accelerator program for recent graduates.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 22, 2016

We expanded the program later that year with partner companies ReadyTalk, SendGrid, MWH Global, SpotX, and Moz, as I wrote about here. To date, the program has served nearly 50 participants (mostly women, but a couple of stay-at-home dads, too!) It is, truly, an embarrassment of riches. Help us change the world.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Leadership Program – International mentorship program with over 100 startups participating. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). University Resources. HBS Startup Tribe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Use pair programming and collective code ownership. Just change it. From the outside, it looks a lot like chaos.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

I decided to start a service year program to let the people in the tech industry dip their toes in the waters of government. At CfA, we have a medium-sized full time staff, most of whom are focused on making the $470B taxpayers spend nationally on programs for vulnerable people in our society work a lot better.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. There are few bigger stages than SXSW to reach the financiers, partners and other supporters that we will need to be successful, and few with an audience as likely to be sensitized to the importance of what we are trying to achieve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake. for Harvard Business Revie.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Expensify Blog.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. So they need that partner, right. And I really wanted a place where the CEOs could go and spend two full days talking about interviewing and hiring and onboarding of people.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. In addition to comments like the one above, my business partner Marc Andreessen suggested that I write a post on how to screen for the right kind of ambition. Stay in your place. While I sit here and rule. I’m king of a cow.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Posted in Franchises 30+ days ago Ask a Question Ask Your Question Here Magazine On Newsstands: October 2011 Current Issue Past Issues Startups Magazine Startups Archive Subscribe Cover Story The Top 50 Entrepreneurship Programs Feature How to Buy a Fleet Vehicle for Your Business Video. What is Sweat Equity Worth? Jump to Comments.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. This program helps pre-funded startups get work done by professionals willing to work without a formal paycheck. I went to every programming event I could find on Meetup.com. In 2008 I was first time startup founder with no cash.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? The former focussed on biz.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. It strokes your ego.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Partner up? Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. It appears to be a good time to look. Forget about complicated programming and controls. Cheezburger’s ‘Luddite’ CTO Scott Porad on why his job beats laying railroad ties. GeekWire Partners. GeekWire Events. Startup Resources. Contact Us.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

The Institute offers a four month program, called a Semester, hosted initially in the Bay Area and then expanding to locations around the world. The program participants, the Founders, receive extensive training in weekly sessions overseen by three Mentors – two seasoned CEOs and one domain expert for each topic.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. A business partnership is like a marriage and finding a long term partner is a very difficult thing. Finding someone to partner with isn’t easy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? There are no self-appointed rockstar developers which you want to partner with. Rockstar v.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

Let me go back and do my classic search for "eHarmony of" startup and find a few examples to use: People to Projects (Managers) People to Jobs (Hiring Managers) Students to Tutors Each of these involve matching people to people (I’ve stayed away from content matching in these examples). What do I mean by this?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s to highlight some of the key parts of your opportunity and what makes it so amazing that whoever it is that you’re talking to, whether it’s a bank, or an investor, or a family member, or a potential business partner, that they are on the edge of their seat and they ask for your full plan, and they want to know more.

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