Early Stage Equity Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 
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. The Adventure of a Lifetime. This is the minimum feature set for founders.
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 9, 2018
At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. That’s why much early stage funding is “Friends and Family”; your friends and family naturally overrate you and/or can’t say no. Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case. They’re betting on you.
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Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. While private equity has a history in the U.S.
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 10, 2015
Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Our Guests.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
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. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley.
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?" Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Rockstar v.
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. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.
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