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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Learn from People, Not Classes

Reid Hoffman

The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve. Among the executives we meet, however, very little of this learning takes place in formal classes or programs, including online ones.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It was all technical.

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Learn from People, Not Classes

Reid Hoffman

The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve. Among the executives we meet, however, very little of this learning takes place in formal classes or programs, including online ones.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses. Density – Yale’s campus is dense by design.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. UI Designer.