crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard – [link]. 24-year-old entrepreneur putting high-speed Internet in rural areas – [link].

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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.

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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? ) I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing.

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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. Prehype , Rocket Internet , and numerous others.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

cofounders. technical cofounder. Why you can(t) recruit a technical cofounder. We know, however, that at some point, especially if you yourself are not technically-savvy, there will be a time where getting some technical expertise on the team is essential to continue progressing. Viewed times.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The Internet can be a tremendous resource in finding the right people to build your team. Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. There was nothing for the consumer to do. com Michael Robertson.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? Thanks to years of internet progress there are existing technologies that virtually anyone can piggy back off.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

He warns that although quality and prize money vary from competition to competition, they can be a great way to practice pitching in a setting designed for getting feedback. We always used advisors or mentors to vet numbers and the block and tackle items within a pitch.”. Where do you find a mentor?

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. Not only will this impact how you design the product, but also where you distribute it, and how you market it. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. See Also: 10 Tools to Design Your Best Product Yet. The headache pills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? Yet, I think this definition is too important to leave out. How can we tell the difference? What if its both of you?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Skimping on design. Your design will be the first look at your execution. You should be splurging on design, branding, etc. because no single other factor will impact your conversions more than having a good design. Get it designed well, then go from there. Get a technical co-founder.

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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. Now I have. Your remote control has two buttons.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. What follows are solely his opinions. The results were amazing.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. And remember, LinkedIn was a consumer internet play with moderate consumer traction and without a dime of revenue. Reid Hoffman.

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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?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. When people ask about how to reconcile metrics with interaction design, usability testing, or in-person customer interviews, this is the issue they are really talking about. Expo, never fear.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. To some point that was true. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Sagan was thus almost like a cofounder and, similarly, has been with the company for 12 years.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. Previously, she was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence (“EIR”) for Dell Inc.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.

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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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