Customer Development Marketing Sales Technical Cofounder 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. neither you nor your cofounder can code and you’re building a mobile app? I offered that if Dave wanted to be the founding CEO then he was going to have to do two things: first, create a reality distortion field large enough to attract a technical co-founder.
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.
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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. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Listen to my entire chat with Eric: If you can’t hear the interview, click here. Taking My Class.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) This is the first way to get video into a computer, we’re going to sell and market this board like there’s no tomorrow. People who aren’t current customers of our graphics boards will get to know our company and brand.
Hearpreneur
JULY 30, 2016
trillion in sales. I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). Share A census in 2012 found that 36% of all businesses were owned by women – a number which has steadily increased.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
On the other hand, it’s a whole universe and you’d need an interesting perspective on why you should go attack that market and face all that competition and noise and everything that’s in the market. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it.
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