Customer Development Engineer Naming Technical Cofounder 
rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. 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. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class. Hear Eric explain what they learned.
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Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
Your name has come up a lot in that regard. Max entered Stanford in the fall of 2010 as a freshman, took as many of the engineering entrepreneurship classes as he could and independent study with me. (He Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Eric, love the blog.
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
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. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? Now what I’ve found is that especially the larger licenses, 10- and 25-user licenses, in the beginning I lost those customers after a couple of months. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal.
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