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What to Look For in a Business Partner

Up and Running

When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. At the end of the month, we’d evaluate the partnership and discuss equity. Finding the right business partner for me. As the month drew to a close, I found myself increasingly uneasy.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”)

bhargreaves.com

In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. 5 Points: You have a development shop that will work for equity.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? This person does not exist.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. Second, like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). If no one ever uses your product, you have no value. Partner up?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

Product guy/designer-has a awesome understanding of the product and what people want, the industry your disrupting, and the problem your solving (he also helps out with cranking out the code). I'll partner any time with a pervert midget and a pair of over-sexed penguins if that increases the chances of success.