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? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service. ” With a list of clients that includes everything from TechStars startups to names like Photobucket and Awe.sm , the curriculum vitae of Quick Left is already impressive, and it’s growing.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. Name (required). Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Software Cloud Engineer III.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. You may know it by its final name.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind. Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? In other words you are outsourcing the technical aspects of your startup.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right? So if I’m looking, MeetingKing’s obviously a brilliant name. But we’re just not going to name them as ideal. It’s kind of already obvious what it does, which is great.

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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. The other major thing Graham advises startups not to do: “other things” Namely: [D]on’t go to graduate school, and don’t start other projects. Distraction is fatal to startups.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Why the name?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Azad Jain , One of the prominent single-family offices in Infrastructure, Energy & Real Estate in India and Principal at Civil & Structural Engineering. Other notable names include Mr. Paolo Tasca, Executive Director, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University College London, Mr. Richard Stockley, Head of Blockchain.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. Sorry, folks. So what is your point?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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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?" If you can't find what you are looking for, hit enter or click "Add Question" again.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. So you’re going to need another engine.

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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. The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. One of the main reasons BricaBox failed was because it was solving a technical problem.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer. This time things like, Patent, copyrights, other basic rules like technical issues and complications were something i was expecting from you. Here are a couple ideas: 1.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work! … Thanks!

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