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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

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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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Slow-moving cycles, like drug discovery or new automobile models, govern the slow part of the axis. I wanted somebody who was creative first and technical secondly. It turned out we indeed could.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government.

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

www.quora.com

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?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? I think it makes explicable why so-called "best practices" that people bring to startups from other contexts fail so miserably.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I put a development team together, received a grant from the Canadian government, and worked with the University of Victoria to develop an innovative ad network Artificial Intelligence system, and now we’re in business changing the landscape of advertising forever. Thanks to Tom Raycove, Disrupted Logic Interactive Inc.! #30