www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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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. Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives. – Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? The discounts?

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Real Advice.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2012

I have seen many companies with spouses as co-founders succeed, but as an employee I have stayed away from joining these type of companies and advise my friends to do the same. Every business needs some technical skill and some business acumen. Should co-founders have the same equity stake? Skills Part. Conclusion.

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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. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. You’re trying to discover a product that will work for some market, while also being a hugely motivating space for you and your cofounders to work in for (potentially) ten years.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Employee Benefits. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We But sharing equity can have pitfalls, too. Newsletters.

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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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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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. If you are looking to add experienced people to your team but can’t afford to pay employees, look at finding a cofounder or using venture labor (hiring someone you pay in equity instead of cash). Horrifying, but true.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? Jason: If I’m managing my whole business with this tool, I don’t have 100 employees. you can’t have one employee because meetings are just too easy and you don’t really have them formally. You can’t have 5,000 employees.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. You’re less vulnerable, pay less equity for your funding, and you have some very specific things to talk about. PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach. Raise when you start getting traction.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ). Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I ended up getting rejected by FriendFeed, and then told the other companies that I wasn’t quite ready to go back into the employee world and needed a few months to figure out what I really wanted to do next. Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development.

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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?" Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Rockstar v.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

However, nowhere has as many real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, landlords, employees, co-founders, mentors, and VCs all steeped in startup culture as does Silicon Valley. This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. larken: Ortaklar?n?z?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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