ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

User experience research or UX research, shouldn’t be limited to A/B testing programs only. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Do User Experience Research.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

To address this, Heather Terenzio, founder and CEO of Boulder’s Techtonic Group, developed Techtonic Academy , an innovative solution in the form of Colorado’s first federally recognized by the Department of Labor technology apprenticeship. The benefits are obvious.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. You don’t even have to use a digital image program to communicate your vision for your website or app. Step 3: Outsource a developer.

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Web Silicon Valley Salary Demand 160

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it. Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. Things will not stay the same at GE.”. So what happened?

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders. Its importance is to outline founders’ rights, responsibilities, ownership, and roles. The whole point is to avoid business disputes that may come up between the founders.

Small Business 167

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

As a great example, we had a chance to interview, Jim Elliott, Founder and President of Diveheart. Diveheart also has a robust outreach and education program around the world that we use to inspire people of all abilities to imagine the possibilities in their lives. Jim Elliott, Founder and President, Diveheart.org.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

by Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly. Studies show that employees who participate in solid training programs stay at least three years 69 percent of the time. Max Yoder is the co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly , the easy training software. Payroll solution: ZenPayroll.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2015

by Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lesson.ly. Studies show that employees who participate in solid training programs stay at least three years 69 percent of the time. Small businesses are always looking for improvements to help their businesses run effectively while maintaining a positive reputation in the community.

Software Review 100

Software Review Technical Review Social Media Cofounder 100

Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents.

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Technical Review Croatia San Francisco Software Review 132

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.” Many founders mentioned this as a reason not to incorporate or grow their companies in Finland.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. During that time one of the founders had mentioned that for the initial agreed time (3 months, equivalent dollars could be translated to 2% of equity but no agreement was reached at that time). What are the terms the founders got in the deal?

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CTO CTO Hire Equity Vesting 167

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been working full time with two founders for about 10 months on full time basis. During that time one of the founders had mentioned that for the initial agreed time (3 months, equivalent dollars could be translated to 2% of equity but no agreement was reached at that time). What are the terms the founders got in the deal?

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CTO CTO Hire Equity Vesting 150

Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

On average, it costs nearly three times an employee’s salary to replace them. As a founder, know that it’s O.K. If you do not have a proper training or mentorship program in place, do not worry. Find an effective online training program to help your new employee gain the skills they may not have. . Train properly.

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Employee Startup Salary Hiring 91

View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. So What Should Founders Do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

That may seem intimidating, but programming is not some monumental skill that only specially gifted people can learn. The initial class, taught mostly by Bishay and a group of volunteers, produced 21 students, 15 of whom got job offers (with an average starting salary of $79,000) as developers at the end of the program.

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Ruby Developer San Francisco Silicon Valley 137

fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Join the Program. Founder Feedback. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA. Founder Feedback gives you insights from the startup trenches. Applications to the Seattle Founder Institute are also due this Sunday, February 26th: click here to apply. "I Posted by Jonathan Greechan.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley San Diego 43

ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2012

When it comes to financing a brand-new startup, most founders find themselves stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. When Bob Herman founded Tropolis Group in 2010, he decided to finance with credit cards so he could take advantage of a cash-back rewards program and use the bounty to buy supplies for the business.

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Technical Review Software Review Angel Investor Startup 118

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

18- Towards specific entrepreneurial coaching and programs. I believe that the future of entrepreneurship is heading towards specific entrepreneurial coaching and programs like EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System). Photo Credit: Jennifer Carrasco. So much so that I am becoming EOS certified. Thanks to Aaron Agius, Louder.Online ! #24-

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Media Bootstrapping 126

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

Software 129

Software Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete 129

Transformify

APRIL 14, 2017

We’re starting series of stories about girls who completed their training at SheInnovates Africa , learning the programming and entrepreneurial skills they needed to succeed. T: Catherine (SheInnovates) founder has mentioned that you heard the advertisement of SheInnovates project in the church. On which topics did you work?

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Nigeria Africa Software Review Technical Review 68

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

Plus, my fear is that there are barriers in those areas that may be difficult to scale—namely salary and lifestyle. If you’ve already got someone that optimized for making the most annual salary, joining a startup might be a difficult sell. Find a small group of technical advisors to oversee syllabus creation, program structure, etc.

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Developer New York City Java Ruby 117

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Furthermore, prospects will want to speak to founders that have high domain knowledge and the authority to reduce the fear of risk associated with a young company. Implement a structured onboarding program. Fortunately, there is a well-defined formula for success.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2019

Being able to inquire about salaries depends on your industry and workplace; many companies have adopted an unspoken rule against salary disclosure. But in others, salaries are accessible: institutions such as state universities make all employee salaries available to the public.

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Salary Retention Ohio Cofounder 198

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.”

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Early Stage Austin Silicon Valley Texas 48

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

What is the average salary of an entrepreneur? According to a First Round survey , the number of startup founders in their twenties falls somewhere around 20 percent. Founders of the companies with the highest growth clocked in with an average age of 45. What is the average annual salary of an entrepreneur?

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Entrepreneur Chicago Cofounder United States 83

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Since much of the start-up playbook is about learning as much as you can as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to reach some important milestone, many founders, investors, and engineers look at a $200k, two-year program as an inefficient means to an uncertain end. Not bad odds if you’re considering getting an MBA.

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Entrepreneur Advisory Board Silicon Valley New York 88

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby 43

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

When you're applying to pre-schools, programs give clear cutoff dates. There are three main sources: 1) Other founders who raised *recently * in related areas. Even if you don’t know other founders well, founders are usually up for helping other founders. VC doesn't have those clear cutoffs. Am I still pre-seed?

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ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. I watched Ophir Tanz achieve much in his early days at the Founder & CEO at GumGum, which has now become quite a large business. Who is leading your patent filing program?

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150