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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. Recently there was a question which appealed to me and no doubt will you: What are some of the most ridiculous startup ideas that eventually became successful. There is some info about it here. And the answers were total gold.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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What Makes Tesla, Apple, and Amazon Different

ReadWriteStart

As Vance writes: With Tesla Motors, Musk has tried to revamp the way cars are manufactured and sold, while building out a worldwide fuel distribution network at the same time. Musk went further, and is winning big. This same principle helps to explain Apple’s and Amazon’s successes, too. Tesla, however, is different.

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Some thoughts on building your team

BeyondVC

For example, if you have a network security startup, the obvious players will be other security companies that sell similar products at similar price points with a similar distribution channel. If you can’t find someone in your network, bringing in a knowledgeable executive recruiter can help.

Detroit 60
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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007. Techstars Mobility (Detroit).