Design Early Stage Technical Cofounder Technology 
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2017
In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
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SoCal CTO
MARCH 1, 2010
They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider. And while I’m at it, a great post by Steve Blank No Accounting For Startups looking at early stage score keeping.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 28, 2014
It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. takes to be a founder or co-founder of a company, or even an early participant.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. It was all technical. it would make more sense than “me.”
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. engineers, designers, business developers). Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.
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