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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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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. So hiring more people and being around more people and getting more things done is not actually one of the reasons. During the meeting. Lots of things change.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

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. Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. And show that you’re focused on the metrics that matter: revenue numbers, engagement traction, etc. The difference between a great, a good, a mediocre and a bad hire are enormously disastrous in term of potential impact on your business.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Q: I would decide what that niche is and that way you can talk to people in that niche and make sure that their world view and viewpoint on this stuff matches yours. Bob: We have a technical term for the person that was telling you this advice. And the technical term is, fool.

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